Pilot Survey

What is a pilot survey?

A pilot survey is where you test drive your survey with a few students. We do this to get feedback from the respondents on how we can improve the questionnaire. For example, one of the respondents might think that the survey is too long or too hard to understand.

Responses:

Looking at the responses my survey was fine and there were no problems with the time it took to finish or filling in the questions.

Desk Review

Image of checklist

I am using a desk review to check my questionnaire.

• To check that my questions are not biased
• That the Questionnaires questions are easy to understand
• I need to check my relevancy to my respondents.

Introduction
Meaningful Title	x
Purpose is clear	x
Indication of how long it will take to complete the questionnaire	x
Clear instructions of how to complete	x
Anonymity statement	x
Questions:
Target Population identified and screened for	x
Does the question meet the purpose and research objectives?	x
Question is clear, easy to understand	x
All possible answers are catered for	x
At least 3 different types of questions (e.g. multi-choice, open, etc)	x
Instructions given where appropriate ie  tick all that apply or tick one only	x
Are any questions repeated or unnecessary?	x
Are there questions missing which would be important for the purpose?	x
Appropriate language, spelling, grammar, etc	x
Questions in logical order	x
Questions will give responses that are easily analysed	x

Things I Could Change And How I Can Fix It

Things I could change in my questionnaire is to have instructions for each sector, At the moment I only have information in the first sector, and more questions to gather more information in my second sector.
I can easily fix this by simply adding more questions to my second sector, as well as instructions for the respondents.

Structure and Design of my Questionnaire

The next part of my assessment is to begin designing my questions for my questionnaire.  I used a stats NZ website and the article ' Methodological standard for writing and constructing a questionnaire. The poster below shows the key graphic and theory of a questionnaire.

Purpose for my Questionnaire

The purpose of the website that I'm creating is

Week 3 Reflection

This week in English we learned to summarize in our writing, we started with trying to find the main points in nursery rhymes and what didn't need to be in the summarize, like Humpty Dumpty originated from a cannon falling off a wall but the main points in the nursery rhyme are that an egg fell off the wall. In PE we learned 2 Maori games, Ki O Rahi and Horohopu, I only learned the Ki O Rahi because I was away but Ki O Rahi is a complex ripper rugby where you score points by hitting the middle drum or touching 7 posts with a ball.

Lacrosse and Kabaddi

This week the class combined with English and PE. In PE learned two new games for us to play, we learned Lacrosse and Kabaddi. Lacrosse is like hockey but the ball is normally in a lacrosse stick that originated in France. The Lacrosse stick is a short pole with a net on the end to hold the ball. There are two teams on either side and they're both trying to score against each other.

Kabaddi is like rugby without the ball or bullrush tag, the aim of the game is to either get more points than the opposing team or by successfully eliminate the opposing team. I enjoyed this week because both games were fun. I learned that passing the ball was quite difficult but I dealt with it by not passing it. 
In English, we learned about subordinate junctions, subordinate clauses, and the CRAP (Credibility, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose) for website information to see if it's correct.

                                          

                                          

Palin ENG-PE

This week for ENG and PE we studied a sport from another culture, the sport we studied was Palin. Palin originated in Chile and is like hockey, the players of the game don't use hockey sticks they use drift wood from the beach and heat dry them so they can form and stretch the stick. The field they play on is 200m by 12m and the ball is firm. I enjoyed leaning another sport from a different country but the challenge I experienced  was trying to find a good curved stick to hit the ball but I ended u finding an alright stick that got my team a point.