Team A  94/100

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

OVERALL: You are free to choose either topic below.  Let me know in
email.  [the jewish chronicle survey will not be available]

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

   A. Interest.        	       10/10


   B. Research Questions.      10/10


   C. References. 	       5/5


   D. Sampling Frame	       8/8

      cbook, possibly with facebook

      process should be
       - randomly sample students from cbook frame
       - use either or both email and facebook to *contact*
         students in your sample

      using facebook to recruit is not a good idea since you will get
      a self-selected sample

      using facebook as a sampling frame is only ok if you can provide
      evidence/documentation that there is not much coverage error for
      facebook as a frame for cmu undergrads

   E. Target Population		8/8

      fine.  

      when you do the survey:

      (a) consider stratifying on grad/undergrad (i.e. have separate
      samples for each); and/or

      (b) consider one population (e.g. undergrad) only

   F. Mode of Data Collection	2/5

      didn't really answer.  I am guessing you will invite people to a
      website to actually take the survey.

   G. Important Variables	4/4

      ok

2. Students' change of majors


   A. Interest.  10/10


   B. Research Questions.  10/10


   C. References.  5/5


   D. Sampling Frame		8/8

      cbook/facebook
 
      see my comments above about facebook

      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.

      good to think about stratifying by dept or major, if you can get
      adequate samples to do it.

   E. Target Population		8/8

      fine

   F. Mode of Data Collection	2/5

      see my comments above about mode

   G. Important Variables	4/4

      fine