ELC3203

Reports: Findings section

Describing and Comparing Data

Students in the Design and Faculty of Business Departments took a course

titled ‘communication at work’. However, there were numerous problems
found with the course and so a survey was conducted to discover areas that
needed improvement.
Table 1 shows data that were collected from Design and Faculty of Business
students.
Decide which is the most important data in the table and then write the
Findings section.

Table 1: Satisfaction with aspects of the course ‘communication at

work’.

% of Faculty of % of design
Business students
students satisfied
satisfied
Effectiveness of the
Qu. 1 teacher 75 69

Quality of course
Qu. 2 materials 35 97

Usefulness of
Qu. 3 92 43
assessment tasks
Course workload
Qu. 4 32 35
Relevance of course to
Qu. 5 80 40
future career
Difficulty level of course
Qu. 6 32 20
Overall usefulness of
Qu. 7 course 71 73
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Reports: Findings section

Describing and Comparing:

Put one suitable word into each gap. The first letter is given for you.

2. Findings
Table 1 shows the seven a___________________ (1) that students from the Faculty
of Business (FoB) and Design departments were surveyed. Out of the seven
aspects, five are a c___________________ (2) for concern and will be discussed in
more detail below.
2.1 Assessment and Career Relevance
The findings i___________________ (3) that while a high proportion of Faculty of
Business students were s___________________(4) with the usefulness of the
assessment tasks, less than h___________________(5) of the design students
were satisfied. A s___________________ (6) result was found in the relevance of
the course to students’ future career. One r___________________(7) behind this
could have been that the assessment tasks and course were more
s___________________(8) for FoB students who often go into quite specific
careers, w___________________(9) design students regularly lead diverse
professions after graduation.
2.2 Course Materials
In c___________________ (10) to the above factors, just o___________________
(11) one third of FoB students e___________________ (12) satisfaction with the
quality of course materials c___________________ (13) to nearly all design
students. This was probably d___________________ (14) to the materials having
lots of visual aids w___________________ (15) designers find more appealing than
those from a FoB background.
2.3 Workload and Difficulty Level
Two aspects that n___________________(16) design students nor FoB students
found s___________________(17) were the level of difficulty of the course and
course workload, with only one f___________________(18) of design students
expressing c___________________(19) with the level of difficulty, and less than one
third of FoB students being happy with the course workload.
S___________________ (20), around two thirds of both sets of students were
disgruntled with the course workload. The problem with the level of difficultly
c___________________ (21) have been due to the course following a syllabus
similar to secondary school, while course workload is always
p___________________ (22) as students have lots of other coursework to do.