Blog Post 8

This blogpost should report your group's findings from your survey.  Use whatever statistical descriptions are appropriate for your data.  Assess the quality of your survey's questions.  What did you find?  What can you say about your data and whether it adequately answers your group's research question?  What would you do differently if you had a chance to conduct this study again?

My group and I decided to research on parking at Kutztown University. Since Kutztown has many students and commuters who drive, knowing how effective parking at the university was would be very essential. So my group members and I decided to conduct a survey on students who parked on the Kutztown University campus. We sampled students from random speech classes. Some people did not participate, but from the ones who did we received a lot of different responses.

My group and I came up with several questions for our survey. The first question the survey asked the students to rate how they felt about Kutztown University parking on a scale of one to ten. Some of the answers were in the one to four range and some were in the six to eight range. So the responses we received about how students felt about parking were fifty percent satisfied and fifty percent unsatisfied. The second question the survey asked if the student owned a vehicle, which resulted in about half yes and half no. The third question asked the students if they had a permit to park on the campus. The answers we received were the same as the answers for question number two.

The next question asked where students parked on the Kutztown University campus. Almost half (about forty-six percent) of the people responded by putting nowhere, which led me and my group to believe that they did not own a vehicle but still answered the survey. Most of the other half (about twenty-six percent) parked on the fairgrounds. There was also one point five percent of students who parked at meters, handicap and designated white spaces. That left point four percent of student parking at Golden Bear Village South and another point four percent on the street. Another question asked if any of the students were late due to parking at Kutztown University. These answers were also half no and half yes. The last question wanted to know how many tickets the student received since attending Kutztown University. Most of the responses were none, but for the ones who have had parking tickets received multiple.

If we could conduct this research again I would make sure we used more specific questions. After this survey was conducted I realized that the questions we posed were very board. The second time around the first question asked would be if the student owned a vehicle at Kutztown University. Then there would be instructions to tell the surveyor how to proceed with the rest of the survey. If yes then it would tell the student to go on to question number two and if it was no then it would tell the student thank-you for participating and to hand in the survey to the proctor. Then the second question the survey would ask if the student parked on the Kutztown University campus then that question would be followed by more instructions. This would leave the rest of the questions to students who owned a vehicle and parked on the Kutztown University campus. After the preliminaries the survey would proceed with the rest of the questions.