Question 7.109

4. Choose an issue of current interest to students at your school. Prepare a short questionnaire (no more than five questions) to determine opinions on this issue. Choose a sample of about 25 students, administer your questionnaire, and write a brief description of your findings. Also write a short discussion of your experiences in designing and carrying out the survey.

Although 25 students are too few for you to be statistically confident of your results, this project centers on the practical work of a survey. You must first identify a population; if it is not possible to reach a wider student population, use students enrolled in this course. Did the subjects find your questions clear? Did you write the questions so that it was easy to tabulate the responses? At the end, did you wish that you had asked different questions?