Reflection Week 4

Our hectic life seems to be endless. So sad that we just have the chance to breathe freely for a few hours then we were showered again by another weekly assignment. The 5^th assignment was being e-mailed by Dr. Siti Fatimah, our course coordinator on Monday. Frankly speaking, we were all kind of lost in the mist after reading the instruction. Everything mentioned was new things to us. Oh yes, before it is too late to be mentioned, actually for the fourth week, we were doing to tasks at a time. In the PDF document that are being uploaded in GE1155 Yahoo!Groups, the assignments were labeled as Week 3b and Week 4. These two assignments were closely related to each other. So, regarding those two tasks, we were required to designed questionnaires allied to our initial topic chosen at the first place that was Web 2.0 in education.

            Before we moved further into the assignments, we were instructed to sign up for Survey Monkey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/ for the purpose of doing our Pilot Test which will be distributed to the course mates in IPGKS. The result for the survey was not recorded because it was to get us familiar with survey forms, methods to carry it out and how to get people to respond. These were all to prepare us for the next bigger and more challenging task in assignment Week 4. For the questionnaire in the Survey Monkey, we were only required to design 10 multi choice questions based on the topic Web 2.0 in education.

            After that, we were to design questionnaire in the Google Docs spreadsheet; checkboxes, multiple choice and scale questions. Not to be denied, it was very challenging to design questionnaire in Google Docs spreadsheet because we need to do it one by one. All we need was full cooperation as we were working in pairs and also endless patience. Done with designing the questions, then it was time to share the questionnaire with course mates in IPGKS as well as in IPGKDRI. Truly speaking, it did take us a few days to get the responses from them. The late respond was not to be put as a blame on them because we understand that each and everyone of us was very busy to get ours done first. Late respond was not a big deal to us. In fact, we appreciated their time and energy spent to respond to our questionnaires. Besides distributing the questionnaires to course mates via e-mail, we also made 10 printed copies of it and distributed them to 10 respondents in the institute. And for this, I should grand a million of thanks to our 10 juniors from TESL 1 and TESL 2 for willingly answering the questions.   

            The next step for this assignment was to collect all the responses, and key in the data in SPSS. Seriously I was lost at the first place for I have never used SPSS before. I just didn’t have any ideas on how to use the application. Fortunately, Mr. Fariduddin was never giving up in guiding us. For the analysis in the Google Docs spreadsheet, it was pretty easy for the reason that we could download the table from Google Docs and open it in Microsoft excel with merely a few clicks. After saving the excel thingy, we could open the converted data in SPSS. It was a real satisfaction in me for I am now able to apply the skills taught by Mr. Fariduddin independently.