Development Research Methods

Question: Discuss about theDevelopment Research Methods. Answer: Introduction Transportation is an important part of an individual in todays world. People irrespective of age use transport of their convenience. The study is focused on the modes of transportation used by university students. It is seen that the university students are mostly using private and public transport. The private transport used by the university students are personal cars, uber and bicycles. They hardly use any taxi. Apart from private transport, the students also use public transport. However, there are advantages and disadvantages of the usage of public and private transport by the university students. Many students walk or use bicycles to reach into university. Sometimes they face problems during the time of riding. The survey questions are asked to the university students who are using public buses and bicycles. The survey is conducted by using questionnaire. The survey questionnaire contains several questions that consist of different types of views of the students that they are c urrently facing in the university campus. However, the public transportation has many benefits regarding the cost aspect. On the other hand, the private transport incurs high cost but they are the fastest mode of transport while reaching to a place. Common Elements of Survey Questionnaire Surveys are common methods that are used in the different types of primary research used by the different researcher. Questionnaire is the forms that are used while conducting the research in order to collect data from the sample respondents. The different types of scales used in the questionnaire are likert scale, three point scales, seven point scales, etc. There are different types scales especially the most popular scale is the likert scale that is related to the pattern like strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree. The seven point scales used in the questionnaire are exceptional, excellent, very good, good, fair, poor, and very poor. The three point scales used in the scales are good, fair, poor. The types of scales are used in the questionnaire are used for the formation of questions that are related to the collection of data in the sample respondents. The respondents of the research are comfortable in providing the answers to the researcher. The questions in the questionnaire are easy and the researcher uses the ethical concerns of the project. Apart from that, there are two types of questions used in the survey questionnaire. They are open ended question and the closed ended question. These questions help in easy understanding of the respondents. The patterns of the questions used in the questionnaire are skipped patterns. The skipped patterns in the questions are the main form of the questions that have helped in collecting the information from the university students. The university students also feel free in answering the questions used in the questionnaire. By conducting, the field research, the researcher gained a lot of information about the topic of the research i.e . the issues of transportation system faced by the university students. It also helps in gaining an in depth understanding of the actual problems of the transportation system and the positive aspects of the public transport and personal transport. The system of providing feedback is an important part of the questionnaire, that helps ion generating recommendations for improvement of transport system for the students. Conclusion The study focuses on the different types of elements used in the formation of survey questionnaire. The elements that are used in designing the survey questionnaire are mixture of questions, skip patterns, designs of questionnaire such as question order and aesthetics. The questionnaire of the survey portrays the fact that the university students who use bicycles and walk to universities are satisfied as there are ample pavements for bicycle riders and pedestrians. Apart from that, the students who use public transport like buses are not satisfied. The university campus must consider these aspects regarding the improvement of the transportation system in the university campus. The questions that are formulated have used different types of scales in the survey questionnaires. The elements used in formation of the questionnaire helped the researcher in collecting proper feedback from it. The service of transportation in the university campus both has some advantages and disadvantages. The students mostly use their convenient transport as per their affordability. The survey has provided a detailed description of the different types of disadvantages faced by students such as irrelevant timings of busses, problems in the bus stop, etc. However, there are different types of activities that the university can adopt activities that will improve the quality of the transport facility.