The document discusses conducting a survey of Purdue University students from 2013 to understand their satisfaction with class availability. It describes stratifying a sample of 2,000 students proportionally based on their college/school and student level (undergraduate, graduate, professional). Qualtrics will be used to administer the survey at no cost since Purdue has a license, and the student records needed for sampling are available through the university. The goal is to understand satisfaction differences that may exist between programs with more or less class options.
The document discusses conducting a survey of Purdue University students from 2013 to understand their satisfaction with class availability. It describes stratifying a sample of 2,000 students proportionally based on their college/school and student level (undergraduate, graduate, professional). Qualtrics will be used to administer the survey at no cost since Purdue has a license, and the student records needed for sampling are available through the university. The goal is to understand satisfaction differences that may exist between programs with more or less class options.
The document discusses conducting a survey of Purdue University students from 2013 to understand their satisfaction with class availability. It describes stratifying a sample of 2,000 students proportionally based on their college/school and student level (undergraduate, graduate, professional). Qualtrics will be used to administer the survey at no cost since Purdue has a license, and the student records needed for sampling are available through the university. The goal is to understand satisfaction differences that may exist between programs with more or less class options.
Are you a current Purdue student? Were you once a Purdue student?
If so, you may
know how it can be at times when scheduling classes. For this, I want to know how satised are Purdue students with the current class availability. This will be answered by taking a survey of Purdue students. The survey ranges on a scale from 1 to 5. The scale is listed below in Table 1. I will also be looking at the overall demographics of the sample and most importantly, the major.
Table 1: Satisfaction Scale
The population for this sample will consist of Purdue students that were enrolled in 2013. The data for this population was obtained from the Ofce of Institutional Research for Assessment and Effectiveness at Purdue University using the publicly available Data Digest. In this population, I have found important data related to each students course studies as well as general demographic information. This course information includes whether they are enrolled as undergraduate, graduate, or professionals; whether part time or full time; which college/school they belong to and various other metrics. Within each of the student levels of undergraduate, graduate, and professional, the data also provides which degree the student is seeking or which classication (if undergraduate) the student is enrolled for. In Figure 1 you can see the breakdown of enrollment by student level. This breakdown shows that 1 2 3 4 5 Very dissatised Somewhat dissatised Neither satised nor dissatised Somewhat satised Very satised Graduate 21.67% Professional 2.43% Undergraduate 75.90% Figure 1: Breakdown of enrollment by student level nearly 22% of the population is graduate students while only about 2.5% are professional students. The remaining 75.9% of students translates to 29,440 undergraduate students out of the total 38,788 students enrolled in 2013. Out of these 38,788 students, 90.78% of the students are considered full-time students. When looking at the full-time student population in Figure 2, it is apparent that the undergraduates alone are more than all of the full-time and part- time professional and graduate students combined. To take the actual sample I will create a two-stage sample based on college/school that the students are enrolled and their level. This is chosen as the stratication because based on being a current student and haven taken classes at every level except for professional, I think this will make a difference in how satisfaction is rated. Some colleges only have classes where there is one section of one class whereas others may have 10 sections of a class at many different times. Out of the population of 38,788 students, 2,000 students will be sampled. Table N u m b e r
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S t u d e n t s 0 1 0 , 0 0 0 2 0 , 0 0 0 3 0 , 0 0 0 4 0 , 0 0 0 Undergraduate Full-Time Undergraduate Part-Time Professional Full-Time Professional Part-Time Graduate Part-Time Graduate Part-Time Figure 2: Enrollment status of students 2 below shows the breakdown of the allocation of the population into the sample. Proportional allocation was used to allocation the population into the 2,000 student sample. Using proportional allocation will allow for a sample of every single strata whereas a regular SRS would not guarantee this since it is completely random.
Strata Population Size Proportion Allocation Sample Size Undergraduate: College of Agriculture 2,704 0.06971 139 Undergraduate: College of Education 590 0.01521 30 Undergraduate: College of Engineering 7,463 0.1924 385 Undergraduate: College of Health and Human Sciences 4,161 0.10728 215 Undergraduate: College of Liberal Arts 3,243 0.08361 167 Undergraduate: College of Pharmacy 641 0.01653 33 Undergraduate: College of Science 3,318 0.08554 171 Undergraduate: College of Technology 3,155 0.08134 163 Undergraduate: College of Veterinary Medicine 280 0.00722 14 Undergraduate: Exploratory Studies 1,150 0.02965 59 Undergraduate: Krannert School of Management 2,511 0.06474 129 Undergraduate: Temporary 224 0.00577 12 Professional: College of Pharmacy 627 0.01616 32 Professional: College of Veterinary Medicine 314 0.0081 16 Graduate: College of Agriculture 591 0.01524 30 Graduate: College of Education 535 0.01379 28 Graduate: College of Engineering 3,016 0.07776 156 Graduate: College of Health and Human Sciences 519 0.01338 27 (Table continued on next page) Table 2: Allocation of sample after stratication
As time and resources will be limited for this, the easiest and most cost effective method for collecting data for this is using Qualtrics. It will be free to create a Qualtrics survey since Purdue University already pays a fee to the company and makes this service available to all Purdue students and faculty that have a career account. In a normal situation using Qualtrics, it would cost to have Qualtrics select a pool of people for your sample and have them sample those people for you. In this scenario, this will not be used since the sample is assumed to be known as it is Purdue University Record. Being Purdue University Record, the survey could be created and the list could be retrieved or the survey sent to the party whom has access to the list. This doesnt seem like an unreasonable scenario as I myself have received various emails in the past to take a survey for some sort of student research interest. This being said, using Qualtrics and utilizing University resources, this method will not require any monetary costs. Graduate: College of Liberal Arts 772 0.0199 40 Graduate: College of Pharmacy 123 0.00317 6 Graduate: College of Science 1,121 0.0289 58 Graduate: College of Technology 485 0.0125 25 Graduate: College of Veterinary Medicine 95 0.00245 5 Graduate: Interdisciplinary and Special Programs 381 0.00982 20 Graduate: Krannert School of Management 769 0.01983 40 Total 38,788 1 2000 Strata Population Size Proportion Allocation Sample Size