My social justice project is to provide an equitable visitor experience for the disabled community at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (an educational institution and a museum. On this page you will learn about the method used to gather data for the social justice project.
Quantitative Research methods
Survey Method
A survey is any activity that gathers information in a systematic manner about a situation, an area of interest, or about people’s attitudes, opinions, behaviors, interests, or practices (Munene et al., 2019).
The Survey Method is predominantly descriptive (). The method involves the collection of data from a sample of elements (e.g., adult women) drawn from a well-defined population (e.g., all adult women in the Maasai community) using a questionnaire (Munene et al., 2019).
The survey method seemed like a great method to use where you are gaining insight into the feelings and desires of the people who are being surveyed. The problem with this form of gathering data is that you are at the mercy of the person. If they do not fill out the survey then you do not get any data. You also have a tendency to get untruthful answers where the guest rushes through the completing the survey to get the incentive.
Surveys are a way to have quantitative and qualitive data. I had to submit surveys to the public and the disabled community. You begin to realize, that when you put a survey together and you send it out to a organization digitally, especially organization that you have a relationship with, and nobody fills it out and returns it. You begin to see the shortcomings and limitations of the survey method. This may not be best way to garner data.
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