Assignment 1

This assignment is to be completed once you have completed Activity 2.

Use this template to insert your survey and your analysis of the results following the outline below.

To complete the assignment follow these steps. First read the entire assignment brief.

1. Record two conclusions that you reached when reading Two generations of teachers: Differences in attitudes towards ICT.

2. State one hypotheses as a causal relationship, for example:

<something happens> because <the reason why it happens>

e.g.
teachers smoke because they find teaching stressful(except that your example should be about attitudes towards ICT, based on the reading) (10)

It may be advisable to check these statements with your tutor once you have formulated them.

3. Design a paper-based survey that will test the validity of the hypothesis (whether it holds to be true or not).
Click here to read more about designing surveys.
Click here to read more about good survey questions.
Click here to see an example survey. (30)

4. Administer this survey to a range of teachers; some who use computers some who do not. You should try to receive at least 20 responses. This means that you should probably hand out more than 20 survey forms.

5. Process your survey results. Create at least one spreadsheet chart of the most illuminating survey data and include this in your report. (10)

6. Analyse the responses. How do the results support your conditional statement? (30)

7. Write conclusions that cite specific data and the data analysis. Declare whether the statement had been supported by your survey or not. Identify further work that could be done to clarify the results. (20)

Assessment:

Assessment criteria for Assignment 1
You have developed a hypothesis statement (stated as a causal statement) based on the conclusions from your reading.	Maximum of 10
You have drawn up and administered a survey form. The questions are of such a nature that they will provide data with which you can test your hypothesis.	Maximum of 30
You have graphed the responses using at least one chart and the appropriate chart type to show a significant set of data from the survey results.	Maximum of 10
You have analysed the responses to the survey and interview. In your analysis you study the data, interpret the data, giving reasons for what you observe and finding connection with the hypothesis statement that you are testing.	Maximum of 30
You have recorded your findings and drawn a conclusion. In recording your findings you refer to specific data in the survey results and as you do so you logically come to a conclusion. If you spot weaknesses in your approach, you record these and indicate how you can improve the process.	Maximum of 20
Total	100

What to submit:

Save the template as follow: Surname_Name_ANtBAR_Module#_A#

Submit this saved document as a file attachment in email to assessment@schoolnet.org.za with the subject heading "Assignment1".