REPORT

SURVEY ON HOW STUDENTS DO THEIR COURSEWORK

Coursework is compulsory in university and college life. We believe everyone

has done coursework before. We are conducting a survey to get feedback from

Design and Technology students in third semester of preparatory programme in IPG

KPT. The feedback is collected for improving the way students do their coursework.

Firstly, it considers the uses of the Internet in coursework. It will then describe what

students gain from coursework. The third part compares individual coursework and

group discussion.

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Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Undecided

Agree

Strongly Agree

The bar chart shows the number of students and how they use the Internet in

coursework. Majority of the students agree that the Internet is used for finding

information, getting latest news and checking grammatical errors in doing

coursework. From the survey, 31 out of 44 respondents strongly agree that they use

the Internet to find information for coursework. Only one respondent neither agree

nor disagree of that statement. On the other hand, 28 respondents strongly agree

while other 15 respondents agree that the Internet provide latest news. For the

purpose of checking grammatical errors, majority of the respondents agree while

only 2 respondents disagree. Hence, the Internet is important in doing coursework.

Number of Students and How They Use the Internet in Coursework

Use the Internet to Find Information for Coursework

Get latest News from the Internet

Uses of the Internet

Check Grammatical Errors of Coursework Online

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The bar chart shows the number of students who get the better understanding

of a topic through coursework. Based on the data collected, most of the respondents

show that they could sometimes understand a topic better through coursework. This

is showed by 21 respondents. There is no any respondent that do not understand a

topic better through coursework. However, 3 respondents are rarely getting the

better understanding of a topic through coursework. Only 6 respondents understand

a topic every once in a while. The remaining 14 respondents stated that they almost

always get better understanding of a topic through coursework. Therefore,

coursework could sometimes help the students to get a handle on a topic.

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Number of Students Who Understand a Topic Better Through Coursework

Better understanding of a topic

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y not ac-cepta-ble14%

not ac-cepta-ble5%

mode-ratelyac-cepta-ble30%

acceptable25%

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y ac-cepta-ble27%

Individual coursework is bet -ter than group discussion.

completely not ac-ceptable

5%

not acceptable2%

moderately acceptable27%

acceptable36%

completely

ac-cepta-ble30%

Some of the group members do not play their part in do-

ing the coursework

The pie charts show the comparison between individual coursework and

group discussion. Some students prefer individual coursework rather than group

discussion since they are hardly to get cooperation from other group members while

doing the coursework. More than half of the respondents, which is 52%, prefer to

have individual coursework. Only 18% of the respondents prefer group discussion.

The remaining 30% shows moderately acceptable with the statement. On the other

part, 66% respondents think that they could not achieve working hand in hand with

others. Only 7% respondents think that all group members are cooperative. Another

27% respondents stand in between. Thus, cooperative problems cause students to

prefer individual coursework.

In conclusion, this survey successfully gets interesting feedback on the way

students do their coursework. The Internet is widely used by the students to

complete their coursework. Coursework could sometimes help students to

understand the topic better by expressing their own ideas. It could also be clearly

seen that individual coursework is more preferable than group discussion. As such, it

is necessary for students to improve their ways of doing coursework.