The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey
Autor: maitrik • October 13, 2013 • Study Guide • 491 Words (2 Pages) • 2,169 Views
The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey
1. Go through the survey questionnaire in Exhibit 1 as a respondent. Reflect on your experience: What are the merits of this questionnaire? What are its apparent shortcomings?
Though the survey was long, the flow of the design was very smooth and simple to understand. The easy and direct questions that needed minimal thinking and no analysis were kept perfectly at the beginning, with the slight difficult questions towards the middle and most of all, the demographic questions towards the end making the respondent comfortable. The survey designers keenly developed some descriptive research about current housing and transportation. Mostly the same kind of scale was used; not confusing the students is an effectively right method to get more appropriate answers. The 2001 survey had rating questions so that helped to compare against myriad segments to understand more significant differences.
The overall survey response rate was only 38% of the whole graduate students of Harvard Surveys was not visually appealing and also had errors such as irrelevant, questionable questions. The length survey could have been reduced by eliminating the repetitive answers in the question, for example, which transportation you often use? The options were MBTA commuter rail, subway and bus could be clubbed to option one as MBTA. The specific student’s course degree affiliation questions unnecessary make the survey lengthy which can be removed.
2. Is there an important aspect of graduate housing that was not captured in the 2001 survey?
Write a question (or a block of questions) that should be added to the survey to capture that aspect in a manner that might impact decision making. Please write your questions in a clear manner and include the response format (e.g. a five point scale, etc) with appropriate labels.
It also failed to test on the terms of housing lease agreement contract which a student would have to sign for the particular home. It didn’t
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