Team A  90/100

OKUMURA, GO               Junior CIT MEG  L     9.0  gokumura 
ZHU, WENTIAN (JUDE)       Junior CMU SHS  L     9.0  wentianz 
LAM, OLIVER O KARR        Senior HSS PSY  L     9.0  ool      
WANG, DUNYANG	WL 4 CIT	MSE	Junior	dunyangw 09-jan-2011 21:08:03
Mike Len      W [did well on pretest] mlen

1. Students' attitudes toward on- and around-CMU campus safety

   A. Interest.  20/20

      While similar surveys have been done many times, I don't know of
      a recent CMU survey on this topic.

      Might be of more value to recruiters than Campus Police per se.

      Note that a recent 303 survey looked specifically at SafeWalk
      and Escort. 

   B. Research Questions. 20/20

      These seem like a sensible start.  Think about how some of these
      might be translated into easy-to-analyze survey questions.

   C. References. 10/10

      Fine.  Surprised not to see any CMU safety references.  Good to
      think of something like the Readers' Digest poll as an external
      standard against which to compare.

2. Students' change of majors


   A. Interest.  20/20

      Interest is good.  Again, can't recall a recent study like this.

   B. Research Questions.  15/20

      Research questions are good.  However, all of the questions seem
      to be about student initiated reasons for changing or keeping
      the major.  What about institutional reasons?  e.g. how many
      student want to change majors but can't because the new major
      makes it hard or impossible to transfer in.  how many change
      because they fail to meet standards for their current major?
      Etc.

   C. References.  5/10

      Surprised no references to CMU.  For example, changing colleges
      (and sometimes even majors within college) is apparently more
      difficult here than at some other schools.

      Otherwise, references good.

    A problem to think about with this survey is that many of the
    interesting "why" questions may apply only to students who did
    change or try to change majors; if this is a small percent of
    student population, then you will have to get much bigger samples
    overall to get "at" these students.

3. Chronicle survey.

   I will let you know what is happening with this over the next
   several days.