learning blog two

I was unable to attend campus session two, however, I have read the handbook on research glossary terms and it has been very helpful. As well as this, the group of us situated at chickenshed theatre have met up and through our conversations on the activity I feel I have made positive start.
Through the handbook, I found some interesting and new ways of researching. One way that I have used, but not often, is closed questions.

Closed questions- definitions:
Questions that only require a response from a range of answers.
Questions that require you answer from a pre-defined list of responses.
Market research questions which offer the respondent a limited list of alternative answers to choose from.
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The advantages of using this form of research is that, by giving people a choice of answer you can then make these into percentages of people and the information collected can then be made into graphs and charts to compile you facts.
This way of researching enables the questioner to stay in control of the answer given, thus setting up the answer closure for a desired negative or positive.

The disadvantages of using this style of research is that the questioner loses out on getting an original and one-of-a-kind answer, the questioner forms the answers that they might what to hear or extremes for the question at hand. Therefore, the questioner loses a more personal answer.

This form of research I will use in collecting data as the questions I want to ask might be too personal and, through questioning this way, I can get an impersonal answer and look at figures rather then personal answers.

100 words about my project.

When coming up with my project idea, I wanted to do something that would benefit the students on the btec national diploma (16+) in the building. At first I looked at what typical issues this age group might face. But with products on knife-crime and gang culture already being devised and produced in the building, it only occurred to me what I should base my project on when I was sitting in a lesson myself creative writing.

“Alcohol is the drug of choice among youth. Many young people are experiencing the consequences of drinking too much, at too early an age. As a result, underage drinking is a leading public health problem in this country.” Taken from the NIAAA website (national institue on alcohol abuse and alcoholism) the way young people are viewing binge drinking is frightening. I want to devise a performance and workshop that the studnets in the building can watch and enjoy, as well as, learn from.