Part one details: "Each learner will prepare, design, validate (face validity only), and administer a
Part one details:
"Each learner will prepare, design, validate (face validity only), and administer a 10-question, Likert-type survey. To begin this assignment, write a research question that accurately addresses a problem, issue, or occurrence you have identified. Develop an instrument that will capture poignant data that addresses the research question…you are to only administer the instrument to your classmates.
To explore issues of population development and sampling error, two of the ten questions must be demographic in design. Post the research question, instrument, and your analysis of the results using descriptive statistics to the assignments newsgroup."
The research question is: are the cognitive skill of verbal reasoning , the personality traits of decisiveness and objective judgment , and interest in technical occupations related to a persons acceptance and adoption of new information technologies.
The instrument is attached with all the responses added up for each cell. Question by question, here is what the 10 survey questions get at:
- Gender: required demographic question #1.
- Generational cohort: required demographic question #2.
- acceptance (personal)
- verbal reasoning
- technical
- decisiveness
- objective judgment
- adoption (vocational)
- acceptance (vocational)
- Identifies the respondent as a decision maker .
Mode
Median
Mean
Normal distribution
Part two details:
"Analyze the data obtained in the Survey Research assignment (Part one above) using Microsoft ® Excel ® . From this analysis, develop a report that explains the data’s suggestions about the issue under study. Include in your final product a graphical representation of your data [see below for the suggested presentation methods]. This report should exemplify the manner by which meaning is inferred from raw quantitative data in research by offering possible interpretations of the data."
Deliverable: Word Document
