For this assignment, you will report and analyze the results of your survey with the intent of developing a deeper understanding of your community of study.
A background section that:
(1) Presents your research question
(2) Summarizes your survey questions (what you wanted to find out from the survey)
(3) States your hypotheses (what you thought you’d find out from your survey)
(4) Describes your interviewees (their credentials, areas of expertise, and why they’re an appropriate source of information for the project; or, describes your survey population (who within your community did you choose to survey and why).
(5) Appendix with your survey responses
A methods section that includes the following:
• For surveys: Discussion of your surveying process, including how you wrote and revised the questions, created answer choices, structured/formatted the survey; how you distributed the survey, elicited responses, targeted a particular population; and how many responses you received, any demographic data about respondents
A results section ordered by significance and reported by theme or topic that tells readers what you discovered from your research by describing and interpreting findings. For this section, you need to summarize the results (not list each question/answer in order).
A conclusion section that:
(1) Tells readers what your r survey results reveal about your topic, how they build on what you found in your observation report, how they help to answer your research question, and why they are meaningful.
(2) Puts your results in conversation with the secondary research you conducted in your annotated bibliography. How does your observation contribute to the larger discussion (be sure to reference at least 2 different sources from your observation report).
(3) Mentions any researcher or participant biases, research design flaws, oversights/missed opportunities, and/or directions for future research.
Survey Report Grading Rubric
Excellent Good Needs Work Missing
Adheres to APA citation style & includes all components of the assignment
Background section provides readers sufficient information to understand the rationale for the survey & what the writer hopes to find from the interview or survey
Methods section appropriately details the rationale for the chosen method and lists the steps the writer took in conducting the research
Results section is thematically organized & details the significant findings from the survey
Conclusion section builds on the observation report & discusses what the writer learned from conducting primary research
Conclusion section puts the survey in conversation with secondary research & includes a minimum of 2 different secondary sources
Appendix includes interview survey responses
Paragraph development & organization
Attention to grammar, spelling, and sentence-level concerns
Overall survey report
