A Study On Data Collection

The next set of questions consisted of statements where the participants needed to choose one response the best expressed the incident in which they agree or disagree he from one being strongly agree to five being strongly disagree. The first statement was "Officers protect the community." The outcome was 23.6% of the individuals strongly agreed 21.8% agreed. There were 38.2% of the participants who were unsure, 7.3% of the participants who disagree and 9.1% who

Personal views on the survey nearing the end of the course were expected. The institution attempts

This included at least one teacher for each foreign language class offered as well. The survey provided no additional information about the research and required each student to select their grade level. Responses remained completely anonymous; however, it was required that each student be logged into their school gmail account to take the survey. This allowed Google to collect each email address before each attempt and verify that each student was a part of the district as well as confirmed that the student had not already taken the survey previously. This ensured each response was unique and that no one student was able to submit multiple responses. With over 250 submissions, I made sure that there were at least fifty respondents per each grade level and that the proportion of responders and their grade levels were proportional. There was a slight unbalance between junior and sophomore responses (sophomores representing about 30% of respondents and juniors 22%), but senior and freshman responses balanced near 25% of the sample population. This created an equal ground for collecting data, which ensured the data be statistically significant. Since quantitative results cannot directly respond to the research question, the method was additionally supplemented with

A data collection plan is a blueprint of how the researcher will implement a study (Grove, Burns, & Gray, 2013). Prior to developing a data collection plan, the researcher will need to consider several factors such as time, cost, and consistency.

Joseph Williams and Lawrence McEnerney, in the second chapter of Writing in College, discuss the writing process, addressing how to collect of evidence, draft, and revise. Evidence in the form of data, which comprises “all the information related to your assignment” (8), provides the specific support for an argument. In college, “Every assignment will ask you to look at your readings in a different way” (8), write Williams and McEnerney. Thus, key in the information collection process is properly “selecting and analyzing data” (8) in a manner relevant to the assignment. Williams and McEnerney suggest some basic methods to collect data, including reading and re-reading the material, while highlighting any relevant information and then narrowing

The strength of questionnaires is it can give an insight into respondent’s thoughts and opinions and also cost efficient as it is inexpensive.

During the first round of data collection, 48 recording sheets were distributed over four work days, three shifts per day, and four work areas per shift. There were 109 restocking times reported on the recording sheets. The mean was 7 minutes and 32 seconds. The median was 7 minutes and 37 seconds.

Implementing TQM could help people have a better customer service satisfaction. Now that people are more connected than ever to technology more and more people are doing their shopping on line. We want to know if people would rather shop for flowers in the store or would they order on line if the customer satisfaction and prices were better. TQM can help better the customer service satisfaction and continue to make it better.

Questionnaires are very useful in the collection and organization of facts and statistics. A pro of questionnaires is how they lend themselves very well to establishing and

The first potential participant I spoke with on the phone asked me a question, “can any staff member volunteer to participate or do they have to be a licensed social worker”? A very valid question and something I had not anticipated. I did not know how to answer her at first. That fact was not part of my research design. As explained by the University of Oxford Personnel Service UAS (2015) “among the standards in research is the practice code of being honest in proposing, conducting and reporting research.” Academic research often has class timeline parameters which puts a strain on the academic researcher. The integrity of the researcher in academic research class may be tested by shortcomings as the result of faults in the design phase. The academic research must choose to do the right thing and act in an ethical manner when situations arise such as in the recruitment of participants and modifications during the data collection phase.

There are many reasons to be excited and not worried about the collection of user data from websites and mobile applications. Since the beginning of 2017, there has been an increase in the number of websites participating in the collection of user data, this is called metadata. Metadata is extra information about data collected via website or application visits, it is a description of data allowing businesses and developers to better understand, use and develop their customer experience. Without the collection of data of website or application visits, businesses and developers would be without feedback about the characteristics of their customers limiting the amount of improvements possible for the service they

In the article “Meaningful Engagement in Facebook Learning Environments: Merging Social and Academic Lives”, qualitative research is used. In this study they “compared the effectiveness of different learning environments between interactive Facebook instructional method and non-Facebook instructional method for undergraduate students.” (Wang, Lin, w., & Wu, 2013). This study was performed in a class with students and instructors on how to use Facebook to learn and interact with the other fellow students. In this circumstance the direct observations data is collected and one of the strategies used is collaborating with participants to gain the

Collecting primary data can be as challenging as a researcher allows it to be. “Most methods of data collection can be used across studies that are classified as qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods. As a matter of fact, the way a specific method is employed for data collection determines the classification of a study to a large extent” (Kumar, 2014, Page 170). The primary data that is collected should be data that a person not only understands, but data that they can clearly analyze. Given the option, the non-experimental methodology seemed to be most comfortable. Lamentations 3:40 states, “Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord” (KJV). The qualitative method was chosen as the type of data that would be researched. It is important that while collecting data for a research paper, the researcher knows the type of data in which their research paper will consist of. “Qualitative study designs are not as specific, precise and well defined as designs in qualitative research. Also, there is degree or overlap between study designs and methods of data collection. Some of the commonly used designs in qualitative research are: case study design, oral history, focus group studies, participant observation, commonly discussion forums and the reflective journal log” (Kumar, 2014, Page 161). While the researcher is in the process of collecting their primary data, they should know the type of data they are searching for, personally observe the data

The methods for the research were based on a sample survey. The survey was a classroom collaboration, where we all come up with questions and administer the survey. We used email, text, cellphone as well as social media like Facebook, whatsup and Instagram to administered the survey. People who participate include family member, friends, coworker, classmate, and client. Everyone in the class needed to get at least five participate. As a group, we had 188 people that respond to the survey. It must be noted that the survey is not a good representation of the population due to the small size.

This report will give an overview of the aim behind collecting data, types of data collected, methods used and how the collection of the data supports the department’s practices. It will also give a brief outlook on the importance of legislation in recording, storing and accessing data.