We have a large sample size of individuals that we have been
able to get interviews from who are undergraduates and graduates of
music-related majors. It has also been easy to collect data on our surveys as
well. We have officially decided however, to cut out the recently graduated and
professional groups that we were originally going to include. We are running
out of time and we believe that our project will be more beneficial if we can
focus on just comparing graduates’ and undergraduates’ perceptions. Our
decision to restrict our sample population is an effort on our behalf to avoid throwing
together a sloppy final product.
Our method for finding participants to interview and answer
survey questions was quite good and has proven to be effective Emily’s inside
track to our prospective sample population helped us make quick and easy work
of the question asking (and also helped us avoid awkward introductions). We
have had several interviews with both graduate and undergraduate students alike.
We have learned a lot through the interactions with the people we have
interviewed and it has added substantially to our fieldwork.
We answered the question regarding
our hypothesis in the last journal, but we will reiterate that we collected
data from our undergraduate and graduate sample population this week and we
found that our hypothesis, a positive expectance from those still in school,
was supported by our findings. We had no problems acquiring information from
our sample population of undergraduates and graduates. We were unsure of what
to expect in regards to findings for our graduate/professional sample
population but we discovered a trend similar to the one displayed in the
numbers collected from our undergrads. We were surprised that all of our
graduate respondents displayed positive opinions on their degree’s
effectiveness, career-wise.
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