1. Schedule HW – 5 para: Common Issues Surveys Team Work
Day 24
Schedule
HW – 5 para: Common Issues
Surveys
Team Work

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4. Final Written Assignment
It is required, as a team to collect data from Keimyung University. You can do this in any form you and your team would like. Please remember though, in the end, you WILL NEED to have some sort of chart, graph, table, etc., which can be used for your 5 paragraph essay.

5. What Makes A Good Survey Question?

6. In the Beginning... Why What Who Where When How
Think about the questions that surround your issue/research question...
Why
What
Who
Why do so many students at Keimyung University walk across the road without looking?
Where
When
How

7. The Possible Survey Questions
Who
As of today, what grade are you in at Keimyung University?
Where
When you arrive on campus, how many roads / streets do you need to cross to attend your first class on Monday?
When
While on campus, what time is your busiest on average outside of class?
Why
Do you believe it is safe to walk while using a phone?
How
Think about your day today: while walking to class, did you use your phone to text, play a game, look for directions, etc?
What
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8. Types of Questions Scales Multiple Choice True / False
Fill in the Blank
Open-Ended

9. Simple Is your question easy to understand?
Bad: Of all the colors in the spectrum shown below, which of the following do you identify with the most?
Better: What is your favorite color?

10. Specific Does the respondent know exactly what you are asking?
Bad: do you like the new orange juice?
Better: do you like the texture of the new orange juice?

11. Individual Are you asking a single question, or many questions in one?
Bad: which is the fastest and most reliable operating system?
Better: which is the fastest operating system?

12. Exhaustive
Do you give the respondents all possible answer choices for the question?
Bad: what do you like best about your computer?
(A: Size / B: Color / C: Speed / D:Reliablity)
Better: What do you like best about your computer?
(A: Size / B: Color / C: Speed / D:Reliablity / E: Other (with text entry box))

13. Optional
Do you allow respondents the opportunity to pass on questions that may require sensitive information that they are unwilling to provide?

14. Neutral Do your questions contain any bias?
Bad: Our bakery products have been the best in the city for 5 years in a row. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best, how would you rate our bakery products?
Better: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best, how would you rate our bakery products?

15. Balanced
Do your answer choice scales have equal amounts of positive and negative responses?
Bad: How satisfied are you with our services?
Answer choices: Dissatisfied, Neutral, Satisfied, Very Satisfied
Better: How satisfied are you with our services?
Answer choices: Very dissatisfied, Dissatisfied, Neutral, Satisfied, Very Satisfied

16. As A Team…
Homework:
Complete a minimum of 5 survey questions as a team
NOTE: demographic information does not “count” as a survey question.
Upload and organize them on the website of your teams choice.
Do not start receiving results until Randon gives you the “thumbs-up”
30+ (this does not need to be completed until this weekend)
Send Randon the URL to your survey