I found many international students very helpful when it comes to filling out surveys. On the other hand, and I’m ashamed to say that, there are some who took the surveys and never turned them back claiming that they have exams and they didn’t have time to fill them out. I kept reminding them that the survey would not take more than 2 minutes to get it completed, but, alas. Consequently, I learned something, whenever you have a survey, try to let the participants fill it out right away. If you let them take the surveys home, it is more than likely you will not see them again. Generally, people are willing to help, but the major problem for some is that they are lazy and careless. I advise also to let people know what the survey is about. Although everything is written on the top of the survey, people don’t read the instructions and just start directly answering the questions. So, tell them briefly what the survey is about, and remember also to read the questions for them. If you do those two things, people will become a big fan of you and will help you a lot; having everything ready, is a nature of humans--people don’t want to “waste” their time thinking or reading the instructions. Also, I don’t know why some people start feeling very tired when it comes to filling out the surveys. Teachers at school should train their students and tell them how important the surveys are on both the individual and the societal level. Last tip I want to add is give more spaces for the answers. People have very different styles of writing, and more awfully if they write a long sentence and decide in the end to cross it out.
Excellent, Hmoud! Some great tips and advice.
ReplyDeleteI also love your choice to include a photograph of this important text. A tip: it is appropriate (and perhaps very useful) to develop fieldnotes involving artifacts like this, as well. Such notes could emerge from your use of the "Grammar of Observation"--What do you see? Where is this text placed? What else do you see (hear, smell, etc)? What if you were to map this space? How do the inhabitants make use of this space? What might we learn from this?
Hmoud I don't think you need to be ashamed because some took the surveys and gave excuses why they couldn't return them. Those are some of the things you encounter when you do research.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I am still finding it difficult to post images on my blog. I think you need to show me since we are using the same blogger.
I like this image above but what you forgot to do is at least interpret even if it is one or two lines what the koran is saying. I think we or me need to know.
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ReplyDeleteLami,
ReplyDeleteYou can find a little blue icon in the box where you attach your document. If you click on that icon it will ask you to browse whatever picture you want to attach. I'm having a similar problem with uploading documents via scribed :(
Concerning the picture above, you may save it as an image, and then you can zoom it in to see the translations below.