Research Report – Workshop 1 Scenario
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WORKSHOP 1 WORKSHEET
Part 1: SWOC Analysis
Survey topic
| Student Achievement Skills Survey Results: Organization and Flexibility |
| Question | SWOC Analysis: Strength / Weakness
| Evidence: Explain your analysis and the reason for your decision for the strength or weakness |
| A | Strength | · This is a strength because most of the respondents think that it is important to be able to organize information so that they can retrieve it when necessary. 55% of the respondents think that it is very important while 33% think that it is important. 3% of the respondents remained neutral while 8% gave a negative response with 4% thinking it was unimportant while the other 4% thought it was very unimportant. |
| B | Strength | · This is a strength because 76% of the respondents rate their organizational skills when they joined the college as strong. Of this, 38% of them rated it as very strong and the other 38% rated it as somewhat strong. 14% of the respondents rated it as neither nor weak while 10% of the respondents gave a negative rating with 8% rating it as somewhat weak while 2% rated it as very weak. |
| C | Strength | · This is a strength because 77% of the respondents rate their current organizational skills as better when they joined college. 42% of the respondents feel that their current organizational skills are much better while 35% of them feel that their current organizational skills are somewhat better. 19% of the respondents feel that there hasn’t been any positive change regarding their organizational skills since they joined college while 3% feel that the skills are somewhat worse than when they started college. |
| D | Strength | · This is a strength because more than two-thirds of the respondents feel that their college studies have had a positive impact on their organizational skills. 50% feel that the impact has been significantly positive while 30% of them feel that the impact has been somewhat positive. 11% of the respondents indicate that there has been no impact while 9% indicate that there has been a negative impact with 4% indicating that it is somewhat negative while the other 5% indicating that it was significantly negative. |
| E | Strength | · This is a strength; 48% agree that it is very important to be flexible while 36% agree that it is important to be flexible summing up the positive response to a total of 86%. |
| F | Strength | · It is a strength because only 8% of the respondents rate their ability to be flexible when they started college as somewhat weak. 19% of the respondents rate it as neither strong nor weak while 73% rate it as strong with 35% of them feeling that it was very strong while the other 38% of the respondents felt it was somewhat strong. |
| G | Strength | · Sixty-one of the respondents rate their current ability to be flexible as better than when they joined college. This translates to 73% of the respondents of which 34% rate it as much better while 42% of them rate it as somewhat better. 18% have a feeling that their ability to be flexible has remained the same while 3% of the respondents rate their current ability to be flexible as somewhat worse as well as another 3% that rates it as much worse. Hence it’s a strength. |
| H | Strength | · This is a strength because a total of 86% of the respondents indicate that their college studies have had a positive impact on their ability to be flexible with 40% of those feeling that the impact has been significantly positive while the other 46% of them feel that the impact has been somewhat positive. 8% of the respondents feel there is no impact while 5% of them feel that the impact is somewhat negative and another 1% of the respondents indicate that the impact is significantly negative. |
Part 2: Results Explained
Outline: Survey results
Importance of Organizing Information to be able to Retrieve it when Necessary
- Over half of the respondents thought it was important to organize their information to be able to retrieve it when necessary. 55% of them felt it was very important while 33% of the respondents felt it was important.
- 4% of the respondents remained neutral while another 8% of them thought it was unimportant and very unimportant.
Organizational Skills when they Started College
- Sixty-one of the respondents translating to 76% rated their organizational skills when they started college as strong with half of them feeling that it was very strong and the other half felt that it was somewhat strong.
- 10% of the respondents rated it as weak while another 14% rated it as neither weak nor strong.
Current Organizational Skills
- 77% of the respondents rated their current organizational skills as better than when they joined college, 19% of the respondents felt that the skills remained the same while 3% of the respondents rated their current organizational skills as somewhat worse than when they started college.
Impact of College Studies on their Organizational Skills
- 80% of the respondents indicated that their college studies had a positive impact on their organizational skills with 50% of the respondents indicating that the impact was significantly positive while 30% of them indicated that the impact was somewhat positive.
- 11% indicated that there was no impact while 9% of them indicated that the impact was negative.
Flexibility
- Questions E, F, G, and H had captured information about flexibility.
- The majority of the respondents at 84% rated the importance of been flexible as important and very important. 8% of them felt it was unimportant while another 8% remained neutral.
- 73% of the respondents rated their ability to be flexible when they started college as strong with 35% indicating that it was very strong while the rest felt it was somewhat strong. 8% of the rated it as somewhat weak and another 19% it had remained the same.
- A big number of the respondents at 76% rated their current ability to be flexible as better than when they joined the college as only 6% thought it was worse while for 18% of the respondents it remained the same.
- 86% believed their college studies had had a positive impact on their ability to be flexible while 6% of the respondents thought it had a negative impact.
Opportunity
- Question A response bears an opportunity for more research since it has the highest percentage response of 88%.
- The researcher may use Question A responses to carry out more research on the organization to aid in the understanding of the students.
Rationale
- I decided to use the responses on Question A because the question has recorded the highest percentage response.
- Research should therefore be carried out on this question since it bears the opportunity to provide more information that can benefit the students in understanding the concept of organization.
Part 3: Informal Email Report
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
SUBJECT: SURVEY ANALYSIS REPORT
I am writing this email to present my report carried out on survey analysis. I was analyzing a survey on student achievement skills specifically organization and flexibility. Over seventy-five percent of the responses on the impact of college studies on organizational skills for example appeared to be positive. In question A, for example, 88% of the responses were positive. The majority of the respondents agreed that it was important to organize information so that they can retrieve it when necessary. I decided to take that strength as an opportunity where secondary research can be conducted to gather more information about the organization for the benefit of the students.
I am planning to conduct further secondary research soon, and I am therefore requesting for your response as quickly as possible. Thank you for taking the time to read my report.
Kind regards,
X.