What problems did you How could your method be How did the problems How did the
d the problems How did the problems
have collecting the data?
How accurate/reliable were your
data collection methods? Did you try
to make your data collection fair?
Environmental survey My random sampling
technique meant I surveyed 3
sites ‘after’ regeneration and 7
sites ‘before’, this was not an
equal spread.
We all had a different idea of
which score to give for each
criteria.
Questionnaire The questionnaire proved to
be quite problematic. There
were not very many people
willing to answer questions
and they were not very
knowledgeable about the
regeneration.
Some of the questions were
not clear.
Evaluations
improved?
If I had surveyed more sites
and had equal number of sites
from before and after the
regeneration this would have
helped.
It would also have helped to
standardise our scoring as a
group before we started, so
that we all had an idea of what
a score of ‘5’ represented.
I would have surveyed more
people.
I would improve the questions
on my questionnaire. Make
some of them more open
ended, rather than just yes or
no.
affect your results? affect the overall
conclusions?
How accurate were your results? Did How valid are your conclusions? Was
any problems with your data the data collected good enough to
collection methods affect them? draw strong conclusions?
Would you have got different results
if you had collected your data at a
different time or location? Could
changes in your methods have
improved your results?
Because the scoring was quite To improve my study I would
subjective I am not that like to have had stronger
confident that the results are environmental evidence on
accurate. Although they do which to base my conclusions.
show that there is a higher
environmental quality after
the regeneration and since
this is what you would expect
maybe the scores were fairly
accurate.
If I had been there at the end To be really confident in my
of the working day I might conclusion I needed a larger
have been able to ask more sample. However the sample
people. More responses would of 30 did show some patterns
give me a more accurate idea though and it gave me a fairly
of people’s opinions. good idea of people’s opinion.
It would be clearer what
people thought if I have
allowed them to answer with
more detail rather than just
yes or no.