This week we been assign to apply our thinking on the 6 questions and finding an appropriate research approach for them plus understand the outcomes so here they are:
1- Which of these two laptops gives the best performance?
Aim of this Question:
From this question what I come to understand is that it asking to compare two laptop brand to find out the best one in performance. Now the comparison between these to machine may varies according to person to person. It also depend on the personal requirement as by taking that into mind, if I say, an IT professional who’s working somewhere as a graphical designer, he definitely want to compare them according to there performance outcome on the basis of graphical work.
Evidence:
For finding answer to this question I would search for a site or other source that do the benchmarking stuff for various electronic devices.
Research Approach
By studying the link provided in Res300 blog and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_psychological_research)the best research approach that I find very helpful to find the right answer to this question is to go with Qualitative psychological research approach.
2- Are virtual worlds like Second Life useful for teaching?
Aim of this Question:
As this question demanding to explain whether there is a actual need of second life teaching in the educational area or not. It also needs to be clear here whether the student wants it helpful or not as may or may be some or lots of student have there interest in studying the second life. Some of the university around the world already started there own virtual world for teaching purposes.
Evidence:
For getting answer to these type of question I probably looked for a documentation that have all the contained list of beneficial and non-beneficial fact for virtual world for teaching.
Research approach:
The best way to take on these kind of question is to take a surveys on these kind of topic. As this is an inductive process, So for me the surveys are the right research approach for getting answer to these kind of question.
3- Why don’t many school students (16-18yrs old) choose to study IT at Polytechnic or University?
Aim of this Question:
This is basically asking to find out the reason why this realistic mainstream course can’t have much influence on many school student (16 -18 yrs old) choose to study IT at Polytechnic or university. Why they don’t opt the IT as a carrier path. Why don’t they take it as an exciting carrier option when there is so much to explore and to learn new thing all the time.
Evidence:
A detail point that properly listed out after been surveys conducted in the schools or in other educational centre that explain all the reasons why the student not found IT as a exciting carrier. Something like this
Research approach:
For these kind of survey I would like to do a face to face interview method with the school student and try to find out the reason out from them about they don’t want to take this carrier line. Down below is a an example of an research conducted in New Zealand between 2001 and 2006. Here’s the link for that (http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/QuickStats/quickstats-about-a-subject/education-and-training/field-of-study.aspx). This survey show how the IT sector is least interested area between youngsters.
4- Which ISP in NZ gives the best value for money?
Aim of this Question:
This question is mainly focus on the customer satisfaction by a service provided by their selected vendor. Now there are lots of thing that matter in these sort of research as it may also fall into the various categories according to the customer need plus the service plan that they want to choose.
Evidence:
Collect all the vendor available in the market and selecting one of them after complete observation on the service provided by the vendor and then one other thing that matter here is about selection the right plan that suitable for customer need and give value for there money which is quite very important.
Research approach:
Now what I would like to do for finding justified answer for these sort of question is to do an observational research, qualitative and may be the telephonic survey are also useful.
5- How do I feel about trying to work with slow internet speeds?
Aim of this Question:
It is basically asking my reaction about working on a system with Slow speed, or what is the minimum speed I would like to have for my system to being keep me out of the agitate state.
Evidence:
You get it best when I am working on some kind of dead speed system. Best define by my expression or word. 🙂
Research approach:
This question basically need a Self report research approach that’s what I think at this point of time as this is the most perfect research approach for this question. Because you are asking about a problem that individual is been facing due to some unpleasant circumstance concerning internet speed.
6- What are the main security issues associated with ‘cloud computing’ ?
Aim of this Question:
The negative part that make cloud computing not safe enough to utilize, what are the criticality of these security issue in other or simple word how you can measure these security issue in the scale of high and low. how much impact ful are they.
Evidence:
A report concerning on the security issue associated with cloud computing. It should have all the proper list security issue related areas in the cloud computing.
Research approach:
As security is a major issue with the cloud storage this is what my opinion is, it is probably something to do with it’s detail study so social scientific research is the best way to find out the major issue related with the cloud computing
This is a what I think of these SHORT 6 question ..oh god now I get this headache …. yo coffee !!!!
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