How to make a survey and a case study about time management of young people in Europe? José Mendes
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What do WE want to learn? the questionnaire How do WE want to present data? in a table, a bar graph, a pie chart or just explained in words
What do WE want to learn? Open-ended ? Please, describe me your “normal” day at school? Closed-ended ? Do you make a planning of your day at school? A - … B - … C - … D - … the questionnaire
don't "lead" people to the answer ? Don’t you prefer relaxing rather than studding? ? How important is relaxing for you? A - … B - … C - … D - … the questionnaire A - Not Important B - Some Importance C - Very Important
scale ? How important is relaxing for you? the questionnaire A - Not Important B - Some Importance C - Very Important Not important Very important
scale ? How important is relaxing for you? the questionnaire A - Not Important at all B - Some Importance C - Important D - Very Important Not important Very important
scale ? How many hours do you study in your day? the questionnaire A – Less than 1 B – 1 to 2 C – 2 to 4 D – more than 4 ___ hours
? What do you prefer to do in your free time? the questionnaire A - Talk with friends B - Sleeping C – Absolutely nothing D – Play (PC, Internet, Xbox, and so on…) E – Social network (facebook, twitter,…) F - Shopping G – Other: _____________________ What are the possible answers to this question? Please rank just 4 of the following activities from 1 to 4, putting 1 next to your favorite through to 4 for your least favorite ____ - Talk with friends ____ - Sleeping ____ - Absolutely nothing ____ - Play (PC, Internet, Xbox, aso) ____ - Social network (facebook, twitter,…) ____ - Shopping ____ - Other: _____________________
Internet examples the questionnaire The activity that college students were least likely to give up for a week. --26%, Checking, reading and sending s --26%, Text messaging --15%, Watching TV --11%, Talking on the phone -- 9%, Visiting social networking sites -- 7%, Reading magazines -- 6%, Visiting websites other than social networks
Internet examples the questionnaire Here are some questions that can be included in your questionnaire: Do I spend my precious time on low value jobs? Do I act, sometimes, if I was very busy?
Internet examples the questionnaire
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Internet examples the questionnaire
Internet examples the questionnaire
short questionnaire closed-ended questions simple words relax your grammar don't write leading question balance rating scales don't make the list of choices too long pre-test your survey start with interesting questions from facts to opinions the questionnaire goalsmall open ended survey small closed ended survey
What do WE want to learn? the questionnaire How do we want to present data?
What do WE want to learn? the population How do we want to present data? To whom apply the questionnaire?
the population ? Compare or agglomerate data?
the population population. age?. grade?. gender? sampling. school representative (%) ?. or “nation” representative (n) ?. our closed friends ?. our random friends ?. random colleagues ? where to question them? How to do it?
the questionnaire goalsmall open ended survey small closed ended survey the population goal2 to 5a clearly defined sample
What do WE want to learn? the case study How do we want to present data? To whom apply the questionnaire?
the case study a day in Brian’s life. fiction. result of our survey but also. result of our small open ended survey. result of our experience
a survey a case study How to make a survey and a case study about time management of young people in Europe?