Week 4 Update
Feb 8th, 2012 by qixuan92
On Monday February 6th, we distributed the questionnaire to students. As we had expected, most students were very cooperative, which was very helpful to our project. After a quick review on the questionnaires, we were happy to find that we obtained sufficient information from students. We were in fact feeling very excited to compile all the data, and analyze them. We split the questionnaires between three of us, so we could efficiently start compiling the data on excel. Then, we would pass the compiled data by the three members, to another member, so he could put them together and come up with a summarized data set. A sample of compiled data is attached below.
Reviewing our partially compiled data, we have already detected some patterns among students’ responses. For example, many groups think that the given time for completion is an issue in their projects. Our report will be based on these patterns, and we expect to start writing the first draft of our report in the next couple of days.
Wow! This is really interesting to me! I’m looking forward to receiving feedback on the course and suggestions for improvement! Thanks very much.
I’m curious about how you are planning to analyze the survey data. Regarding the comments, I wonder if doing a “wordle” (http://www.wordle.net/) would be helpful.
Also, in addition to looking for patterns in the responses, it would be interesting for me to hear whether or not the patterns you are detecting are similar or different to your CSL project experience.
Thanks again for doing this!
Regards,
SN