I have had some challenges in my professional career as well as my school work.  It’s a lot but step by step I will get there.  I finally get time to send off my survey topic to be approved hopefully I would get it back soon.  The downloading of the sceencastomatic was not bad as I thought.  

In Unit2, I have learnt so much about a survey. What it is and how it is used? Why is it important for many businesses and other institution to conduct a survey?  I have also learnt there are many different types of surveys, several ways to administer them, and many methods of sampling. There are two key features of survey research:

•             Questionnaires -- a predefined series of questions used to collect information from individuals

•             Sampling -- a technique in which a subgroup of the population is selected to answer the survey questions; the information collected can be generalized to the entire population of interest. Surveys can be done in descriptive and explanatory research.

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Kemona

Hi everyone,

I am still trying to get accustom to survey and analysis course. I never knew how intense this course is until now.  It’s being rough, the weeks are going really fast and I am trying to keep up with it.    It is a lot to read along with other courses which it is not digesting how I want it too.

This unit was a very long but interesting one.  It was about questionnaire and what to expect and consider when constructing one.  I have learnt that the use of a questionnaire should be of quality, reliable and valid in the research process. It should be clearly stated and in a form so that person who answering these questions can easily understand what these questions are asking rather than using big words and the reader does not understand what he is being asked.    How to go about designing the questionnaire was also highlighted.

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Kemona                                                       

I must stay that this course is getting better as the week progresses.  My week went exceptionally well this week. I got to achieved all that I wanted too and I must say that I’m feeling optimistic about this course now. I’m seeing the light at the tunnel.

 We are now at unit 6 which speak about sampling design for survey research. This unit was very short and interesting. I learnt about the factors affecting the choice of sampling design. These are probability and non- probability.  This is to ensure that every element of the population has a chance to be included in the sample. It also highlighted the different between the two probabilities which is non-probability and probability sampling is that non-probability sampling does not involve random selection and probability sampling does. .Some of the types of non- probability were mention such as convenience or accidental sampling, Purposive sampling, Modal instance sampling, Expert sampling Proportional and non-proportional quota sampling. For probability are random, stratifying and clustering.

Best regards

Kemona

This week debate was not bad.  My partner and I had already started on our question early, so we were ahead.  We were on the agreeing side and so information was not that difficult to get. The topic we had to write on was as follows: It is both time consuming and expensive to undertake a census. A survey based on a sample, can be executed much quicker and at a fraction of the cost of undertaking a census. A properly executed survey, based on a representative sample, is therefore the better approach. We started, out with a clear definition of a sample and census as well as highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of a survey along with our supporting argument and examples of why a sample is far better choice to use rather than conducting a survey.  

This group debate was not a bad attempt at all.  In the past I have worked with persons who did not contributed or did little work for group assignments. My partner and I worked very well in attaching this topic.  We came to an agreement within minutes and so things went smoothly.  It was a good experience for me.  Thanks much to Mr. Kelly and Ms Mohammed.

Regards

Kemona