Monday, 2 November 2009

Research method

To find out how much of an affect mobile phones have on the amount and quality of work done for university students aging from 18 to 22 a questionnaire will be used. The questionnaire will use closed questions producing quantitative data so that the data gathered from them can easily be put into graphs. It will also include an introduction to explain why the study is being conducted and what the results will be used for. Facebook and emails will be used to distribute the questionnaires to lots of people as this is easy and can be completed quickly as there is a limited time for the study to be completed. Facebook also has students from all areas and universities throughout England. A pilot study will be done to make sure that using Facebook and emails are a good and beneficial way of completing the study. A pilot study will also show any problems with the questions in the questionnaire. This smaller study will be sent out to 5 students and will be asked whether they think the questions are all satisfactory and easy to understand. The questionnaire itself will be sent to 50 students aged 18 – 22 through Facebook.

Each question will be represented in graphs making it easy to read and compare with the results and findings from previous studies indicated in the Literature Review. The graphs will show up any trends and whether mobile phones affect student’s university work.

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