WEEK 3 - SURVEY RESEARCH

During today's session we learnt about research framework. We did a group activity and were divided into groups of 3. We were given 3 articles to read, one member of the group reading 1. However, 2 people had to read the same article because there was 4 people in my group. The articles was about research methodologies (Qualitative and Quantitative).

From my article, I had to read about how to design effective questions and questionnaires. From what I've learnt is that to make a good questionnaire is to actually identify what exactly you wish to know. Having primary research is very important for the topic to create questions that the respondent can relate too. We should also make the survey very easy to read and not complicated so the respondent will not feel like it is too much work. The ways to avoid doing while creating a questionnaire is shown above on the board.

I also learnt a few other things while looking at my other group members notes on the board like how you can ask the respondents extra questions that are used in your own words to share the information that you are trying to present. This will help further your research on the topic. However, the questions are open and ending questions and flow according to how the respondent will respond back to the questions. It will either be helpful or not.

In conclusion, sometimes the research from the survey might not be what we exactly wanted but it will help develop our research and grow out our topic.