Our school has many resources and I wanted to know if faculty members knew about all of the resources, how often they used these resources, and what department did they work in, to determine if one department was more informed about our resources. I felt this was the first step in determining if additional resources were needed. Through talking with James, the director of the EJME as well as my principal, Jennie, it was determined that a survey would work best, and that it should be limited in the number of questions, containing no open-ended questions that would require writing. Everyone felt that teachers might be more willing to complete the survey if it were shorter, so I ended up with only four questions in the survey that required …show more content…
Other resources that are not often though of as resources are the teacher professional development funds (Pro-Grow). Yearly, money is put back into the general fund, unused by staff and teachers alike. This money, available for our use to become more effective teachers for the diverse population that we serve goes unused, even when our school believes that we are a teaching and learning school, both adults and students alike. If learning is essential to the school, why is it that only 64.4% have used this in the past twelve months and only 50.8% have utilized Pro-Grow in the current school year 2016-2017, furthermore, why does only 89.8% of the faculty have knowledge of Pro-Grow funds?
Overall, I felt that I had a low response to the survey, with only 59 out of 150 teachers or 39% of faculty responding. Both statistically and for my own satisfaction, I expected more people to respond to the survey. Not only was the survey sent out several times, I also spoke to people directly, asking them to complete the survey. Nonetheless, even my own department did not meet 100% participation, as teachers were absent for various reasons.
Sources or error could include non-sampling errors such as errors associated with interest. Interest being the survey was not a requirement of faculty of the administration, so there was less interest in completion, or faculty had not interest in the question asked. Furthermore, teachers may also have felt
Why are tax payer’s dollars wasted by spending this money on terminating teachers? Writing in Time, Stephey states that “Some school districts have resorted to separation
a staff meeting is held within three weeks of the survey completion, and at that time all staff
4. What are the limitations of the survey method, and how would you overcome the limitations of this research method, or any research approach?
An adequate survey must be conducted. An adequate survey requires impartially worded questions, and a high participation percentage.
The study was created from students, faculty, and staff from a Midwestern university with about 10,000 students registered on campus. The team assigned to conduct the research randomly selected courses that were held on campus and were scheduled to meet on two consecutive days during the semester of Spring 2013. Kyle et al., (2017). The instructors were emailed and asked for consent to run the survey to their class on a specific date. The research team ended up receiving access to forty different courses. Over the two chosen consecutive days, the research team administered the survey to the students in each of the classes. The students were let known that participation for this study was voluntary and if they wished to decline
Our team learned that we will need to bring a tape measure to school at our band’s marching field and measure the marching field. We also need to figure out a cost and start talking to people that work for the city, I did learn that the other person who is on my team he knows somebody that works for the city and that can be a really good thing because maybe it can help us getting a cheaper deal. Our team had created this survey for our project and we sent it to all the students in our band, we wanted to create this survey for our project because we think it can help us out for our project and so far all the people that have put their response do want something done about our marching field, there were some responses that I would
Based upon information provided this study was appropriate conducted as a purposeful sampling but, this study
Throughout the 77 responses survey, I noticed some unfair and bias things that changed the outcome of the survey. One example is that 60 out of 77 responses came from 9th graders. From a ninth grader’s perspective, we view things a lot differently than 10th through 12th graders. There is a big maturity gap between 9th and 12th graders, and that affects the survey a lot. For example we do not like the sophomores, which of course means the sophomores are going to be voted for most rude, we don’t care for them. Another thing that I noticed was that there is a lack of upperclassmen taking the survey. There are 15 seniores in the survey, which is not bad, but there are no juniores. Upperclassmen are the “head” of the high school, and it makes all
I didn’t have a plan when trying to go about finding a certain group of people to survey so, as I saw people I just handed them the survey and asked them to fill it out and give it back to me. I had a total of 16 answered surveys, the respondents ages ranged from 18 years old to 26 years old. The first question of my survey asked about the latest cases they either heard or read about. After analyzing the response, most responders, about 50%, heard about the Ferguson Case and a few heard about the shooting in Savannah. Questions number two and three asked where they got the info and how many times they used or visited the resources and site(s) that they indicated in the previous question. I
This survey spans across the mid-level and high-level schools of United States, which are believed to represent a cross-section of the national population. About 66 – 80% of the American schools participate in the survey on an average, and the students’ participation rate stands at an average of 79 – 83%.
is there bias in the observational study? Are there variables that could be confounding? Explain your reasoning, be sure to use appropriate vocabulary from the book to do so. Remember there are many ways to be bias, some could include sampling choice, others could include questions asked or wording used in
Mean performance on the end-of-semester student course surveys for both the instructor and the graduate teaching assistant appointments (full data, including written comments, is available upon request):
Thinking up of questions for a large-scale survey is a multi-step process, and this will become clear with the explaining of the layout of a few surveys. In spring of 2009 between April and May, The Project Information Literary team decided to put out a survey to further understand the usage of Wikipedia among college students. First they had to create the question on the survey. They did this by creating an 11 student focus
This ‘random sampling error’ indicated that there was no cross section of the target group (generation Y) and in turn was a sample selection error. There were 3 respondents whose results were not analyzed, as they did not fall into the target group of generation Y and this was an administrative error. This is another common research problem is survey non-response. Marketers can unintentionally design surveys which many customers choose not to respond to.
After reviewing the survey, I found it to be very lengthy and redundant. Some of the questions are asking the same thing but the wording is slightly different. Also, the survey is requiring the employees to recall information that occurred several months ago. My improvement suggestion would be to reduce the length of the survey and make sure that it is geared more towards the objective of the survey.