Purpose: The purpose of this Application Assignment is to provide a written analysis of the questions and process of
the survey that you did for Application Assignment #1. You will look for problems with the questions themselves and
in the process that you used to conduct the survey.
Skills: In this assignment you will practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course,
in school, and in life generally:
1. Reviewing the work of other people
2. Analyzing content of questions
3. Analyzing the survey process that you used in the survey
4. Summarizing information and presenting your analysis in written format
Knowledge: This assignment will help you to become familiar with the following content knowledge:
1. Survey question drafting
2. Proper survey process
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Task: Step 1. Review the five questions and the process that you used for the survey from Application Assignment
#1.
Step 2. Analyze what (if anything) was wrong with each one of the five questions. In this analysis, describe,
using proper terminology, the problems you discover (such as double-barreled question, etc.). You
do not need to repeat the actual question in your paper. Just describe what was wrong with it. In
your description, it is okay to a few words of part of the question, but don’t write out the full
question in your paper. That takes up space that you need for your analysis.
Then rewrite each of the questions in a better format, following proper survey question drafting
methods. Finally, describe why you feel your revisions are better than the original questions, again,
using proper terminology.
So, this part of the analysis should be in paragraph format where you take each question one by
one and using proper terminology:
a. Analyze the problems with the wording in that question;
b. Tell me what your rewritten question would be; and
c. Describe why you feel your revisions are better than in the original question.
Step 3. Next, review the survey process you used (who you asked, how you chose them, etc.). Analyze what
was wrong with the process you used. In this analysis, use proper terminology of issues with the
process you used (such as lack of a representative sample, etc.).
Then, taking into consideration your reading, particularly chapter 6, and the hand-outs we went
over in class, and our classroom exercise, discuss what type of process should have been used in
order to “fix” the problems of the survey process that you used. Make sure you use proper
terminology to describe how and why you set up the process the way you did to fix the problems.
So, this part of the analysis should be in paragraph format where you walk through the survey
process and using proper terminology:
a. Analyze the problems with the process you used in the survey; and
b. Set out a survey process that will fix the problems with the original survey process.
Step 4. Upload your Application Assignment to Canvas by the due date and time.
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