Week 4 (25th-31st July) [Task related to Week 3b & Week 4]

Another week has come and gone again. But, i have experienced an interesting week with gaining new knowledge and experience. Happy? Well, I am. :)

In this week, we had to do Assignment 5. This time, we required to do some online questionnaires for a survey research on the same topic in assignment 1 & 4 which was Thinking Skills and ICT.

a. Survey Monkey:-

My pair (Aileen) and I had to create 10 questions for a pilot test. First, we need to sign up at Survey Monkey. Then we created questions with one answer only. In the beginning, it was really confusing, but after typing more questions and ticking the answer in this site, it was pretty easy after all. Practice makes perfect? It does! :D

b. Google Document:-

So Survey Monkey was just a pilot test. But this time, it’s the real thing. We need to create 30 questions in Google Document: - [10 multiple choice questions, 10 checkbox questions and 10 sale questions.]

We first brainstorm questions on what we want to ask about our topic. It wasn’t an easy task as we need to create 30 different questions about our topic. After that, we typed out the questions in Google Doc. We then send the questions to our course mates e-mail address to test their knowledge and receive feedback from them.

Using the same questions that we sent, we also printed out 10 copies and ask volunteers to answer the questions.

It turns out that in order to record and analyse simple data, a simple survey like SurveyMonkey and Google Doc would solve the problem. But for a bigger survey, we need to learn a computer aided quantitative data analysis called SPSS.

c. SPSS:-

I copied from a friend of mine the SPSS program. Later, we transferred all the results which were answered by our course mates online and volunteered under graduate in our institute. It turns out to be helpful in analysing each questions and it can calculate the frequencies of the results and percentage of each given number. It can also transform the data into a graph.

d. Report:-

After analysing the data, we need to write a report about our findings.  Our report must be in a journal article format. We took a long time to do this journal and I felt that next time, we could arrange our time better to complete it in a shorter time.

Overall, this task is not an easy task for me as it is challenging and confusing. It is also my first experience dealing with this new program which requires several cooperative programs in order to complete the whole search-(SPSS, Spreadsheet, Google Doc, Open Office) But after several support from my friends and lecturer, I finally got through with it. Time management and teamwork are also important in order to complete the task. Thanks to Aileen too for being a wonderful partner to keep things in order. I would also want to thank all friends who have answered the questions in order to complete the survey and journal. Reminiscing back, this week has really drilled me with a new experience that will definitely help me in the future. I am really grateful for learning this and hope to apply it effectively next time.