ࡱ> HJG7 mbjbjUU !67|7|QlL L L 8  ,"2  (      !!!!!!!$5# U%!     !  ! R  ! !" $R F! 0l߳L ` F F!<!0" !:% \%F!URBS/PLSI 492 "Research Methods" Richard LeGates Fall, 2007 Office HSS 137 Office Hrs TTH 2:00 3 Phone (415) 338-2875 and by appt. E-mail HYPERLINK "mailto:dlegates@sfsu.edu"dlegates@sfsu.edu Project # 1: Asking Questions / Designing Surveys The purpose of project 1 is to help students understand and apply material from the course concerning asking questions, designing surveys, and coding and entering data. We will begin talking about how to ask survey questions at our first class meeting on August 28. By the end of the class you should have identified a research issue of interest to you and begun to formulate questions. For Thursday, August 30 students should bring to class a written, one-half page draft specifying a research topic and listing 10 questions that they would like get answers to through a mail survey. It is fine (desirable) to select a topic you are considering researching for another class. For Tuesday September 4 students should bring to class a much more structured survey outline. Make one copy to turn in and one copy to keep for yourself. The September 4 draft should have the following elements: A specific topic. Examples might include: (a) MUNI rider commuting behavior, (b) San Francisco residents' attitudes towards homelessness, (c) Agency heads' opinions of the best future use of treasure island, (d) Mission Housing Development Corporation housing residents opinions of their housing.. A group of people to survey. For example surveys about the above topics might be addressed to (a) Muni riders, (b) a random sample of San Francisco residents, (c) Heads of agencies that have a stake in the future development of Treasure Island, and (d) Mission Housing development Corporation housing residents. 10 Questions you would like answers to regarding the topic. Include: One open ended warm up question that is easy for the respondents to answer like What do you like best about San Francisco? Put the warm up question first. Three factual question like: "How often do you take MUNI"? Two opinion question like: "Do you consider homelessness in San Francisco to be: (a) a very serious problem, (b) a serious problem (c) a minor problem (d) not a problem? Four demographic question about the respondents like: What is your age? Put the demographic questions last All of the questions should be close ended except for the warm up questions requiring the respondent to select a specified answer or enter a number. The warm up question should be open-ended in which you allow the respondent respond in their own words rather then selecting from among choices or entering a number. Read the material on nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels of measurement in 63 68 Chambliss and Schutt pp 66 - 71. Write one factual question asking for information at the nominal, one at the ordinal, and one at the ratio level. Dont worry about interval level data for this project. Make one of the opinion questions a likert scale question that requires the respondent to select one choice from a 5-point scale: (a) strongly agree (b) agree (c) neither agree or disagree (d) somewhat disagree (e) disagree. Include a "Don't Know/No Opinion" choice on this question. For each of the types of questions write what it is after the questione.g. Do you own or rent? [factual question | close-ended | nominal level] We will use the materials students bring to class on September 18 to learn more about how to write survey questions. On September 11 students should have completed a draft of a well-designed, carefully laid out three page survey instrument for a mail survey which asks clear and unambiguous, answerable, questions. It should reflect the principles of survey design in Salant and Dillman and the class lectures. Look at examples of surveys students in URBS/PLSI 492 have prepared in the past on the URBS 492 website (http://bss.sfsu.edu/legates/URBS492). The survey instrument should: have a heading such as Americans Opinions on Terrorism and Civil Liberties; have instructions to the survey respondent telling them about the survey be edge coded (we will discuss how to do this in class). Codes should be assigned to close-ended questions where appropriate text of 15 questions including: An open-ended warm up question as the first survey question. At least one factual question that calls for nominal level data At least one likert scale factual question that calls for ordinal level data At least one one factual question that calls for ratio level data At least one opinion question At least one attitude question. At least 4 demographic questions at the end of the survey Pay careful attention to formatting. Pay attention to fonts, margins, spelling, punctuation Double space Do not divide questions across pageshave all the words related to a question on the same page Write Q1, Q2, Q3 before the questions Include a short line in the edge code area for a survey ID # Include short lines in the edge code area to indicate where codes go (as described in class) Thank respondents at the end of the questionnaire In class on Thursday September 13 we will talk more about designing surveys and students will pre-test their draft survey instruments on other class members. You will have one more week to revise and update your survey instrument based on in-class discussion and feedback from other students. The final version of project 1 is due in class on Tuesday September 18. Keep the survey instrument you develop. For project # 2 you will learn how to collect data, do data entry, and analyze (hypothetical) data for your own survey. 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