Selecting Target Groups and Arranging for the Survey to be Administered

A lot of this week was spent contacting various teachers at other schools to see if administering my survey at a public high school would be a possibility. Many many emails later, I learned I'd need to seek district approval before I could proceed with my surveys. Unfortunately, it turns out that the process for seeking approval is very long and wouldn't be completed in time for my project :/

Because of this, I ended up changing the topic of my research again. Instead of looking at the sleeping habits of kids at a BASIS and at a public school, I limited my target group to include just BASIS students. However, since BASIS's high school is small and would only render around 80 usable surveys, I also expanded my target group to all of BASIS Peoria's population (Grades 5-12). I plan to deliver these surveys next week during the lunch periods. 

Creating the Surveys

This week, in addition to my regular schedule at my internship, I begun finalizing the research portion of my project. Seeing as the main goal of my project involves finding trends in the sleeping patterns of students in different school environments, it seemed fitting for me to collect data via a survey.

Truth be told, creating the survey was a lot harder than I had initially expected. The first issue I had was figuring out which questions were important to ask and which ones could be left out (because nobody would opt to fill out a super long survey). The second issue I faced was actually phrasing the questions in a clear and coherent manner. While I, and everyone who helped me write the questions, knew what the expected answer was, I needed to make sure that when I gave the survey to a complete stranger, they would also know what I'm asking them for.

Several drafts and proofreaders later, I think I finally have a working survey! Next, I need to arrange for the surveys to be administered to my target groups!