Friday, April 5, 2013
Hey guys!
Sorry I couldn't come to class last week to hear about everyone's brilliant projects and ideas! Hope all is well! Right now I am working on my questionnaire. It turns out to be much harder than I thought it was going to be. It is really making me think about what exactly I want to ask because I need to know what data I can really use. I also need to be conscious of my wording because each of the subjects in my study will be coming from different educational backgrounds with different reading levels. I am so used to trying to write very eloquently with wide vocabulary. I am finding it hard to sort of "dumb" down my words or break it down to layman's terms, so that the women will actually understand what I am asking them. I am planning on asking 3 or 4 basic demographic questions, 6 questions using a likert scale, and four opened questions. For those of you who are like "what is a likert scale?". You've probably seen them many times before but it's the type of question where you would answer with one of the following: strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree. I hope to have an outline of this questionnaire finished so I can meet with my adviser within the next week or so. When she approves it, I'll put it online so that you guys can read it!
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In last week's class Travis had surveys that he had us fill it out. He came up with the survey himself and it was related to his project. He wanted us to "tear apart" the survey, to criticize it, to tell him what is wrong and what is good about the survey.
ReplyDeleteI think you should do the same thing. Just bring in a rough draft of your survey and have us or your friends and family "tear it apart".
I learned that for all work (papers, presentations, any kind of work) you should just keep it simple. My high school teacher had a saying that he would tell us all the time "K.I.S.S: keep it simple stupid" lol
You missed a helpful class last week! As Saman said, we took a survey that Travis created and we discussed a lot about what good questions are, and how to tell if the statement was too vague. We could totally help you work out any problems or concerns that you have with your survey, as we did with Travis :)
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