scientific research plan

Reading behavior
by Amal and Khawla

Introduction:-

  Technology has improved during the time, now a days it become more powerful than before, it is controlling our time and our life, so a lot of people prefer to spend their time on games, chatting and social media rather than spend it on reading books, so we were curies to know if they love to read, what is their reading behavior??, are they think that books are a variable thing?? Is it deserved to spend their leisure time on reading?? 

Research plan:-

 First of all we start to set up our research plan, and decide who our target is, or who we are going to ask, when we will ask them and where? Finally how we can reach them??

Who:

  Dubai women college morning students, a sample of 10 students in each year (foundations student’s / first year students/ second year students/ third year students/ fourth year students).

When:

 After spring break we are going to collect the data from all of the students and it will be during week 7 and 8.

Where:

At the DWC campus.

How:

By sending them an online survey via survey monkey.

Data Collection:-

  As we know to reach some person or group of the people we need to think how this person will love to answer us, or how we can accesses this group, we recognize that printing our survey and distribute it is a bad idea, because it will take a lot of time and it’s not a sustainable act also we will find a lot difficulty to analysis, so We used survey monkey to collect our data because it is an easy way to reach people which is through a website link rather than papers distributed by hands .
First of all, we started setting up our questions and made some changes in the survey. After that, we sent the link to our friends in HCT by emails but we didn't receive enough responses, so we decided to send it through BBM and broadcast the link to our friends in HCT. Finally we got more than 50 responses.

Instruments:

  We ask them 10 question, 6 of them were multiple choice, and 4 of them where text answer, these questions help us to know more about their reading behavior , and how they think about the books                                                              After collecting our data we and analysis it we get an answer for our research question.

What do you read? How often do you read? How long did it take you to finish the last book you read? Where do you read most of the time? What is your favorite language to read in? What was the longest period of time you stopped reading? Why do you read? Do you like to read about factually or non-factually? Why? Do you believe that books are the best way to exercise your mind? Why? What is your advice for those who don’t read?

Data Analysis:

 The graph shows four options, Novel, scientific, love stories and others it is evident from the chart that novel scored the highest percentage nearly 40%, with small difference between it and love stories that got nearly 38%

In this chart, we can indicate that 46% of the students read monthly and nearly 9%of them read daily.

·       -After analyzing  each respond we indicate that, who read love stories or scientific books  they often read them on a month , and who love to read novels they often read them once a week.

 For most of students the period of finishing one book equally between “A week” and “A month” with a percentage of 35%.                                                                                                                                                                        

                  

As we can see in this chart, the majority of students were reading at their homes, so the percentage of reading at home was fare away from the others, with a same percentage of 4% for reading in each of work, library and other places.

·         After analyzing the data we realized that nearly all of the students who read love stories finished it on one month, but who read novels and scientific books, we got an equal percentage of finishing it on a week or one month, and finally almost all the students loved to read at home.

  

The favorite language to read for the students is Arabic (65%) and the second one is English (30%), with no responses for French.

Half of the students stop reading during the semester with different responses for the others.

·         Based on the analysis, who read novels or love stories always prefer to read it on Arabic on the other hand who read scientific books they prefer English language , finally nearly all of them stop reading during the semester.

    

Why do you read?

  We receive different answers for this question, most of students answered that, they are reading for having fun, spending time, and to increase their knowledge.

Do you like to read about factually or non-factually? Why?

 

  Nearly 50% of students say that they love to read about factually, because they want to know more about the real life and what is happening in it , the others answered that they love them both because the first one increase their knowledge and  the second one make them get rid of tension and life stresses.

Do you believe that books are the best way to exercise your mind? Why?

  Almost every one said “yes” but with different reasons, some of them believe that books improve our imagination and the way we think, and some of them said that books provide us with new information and make us ask for more. On the other hand, a few of them disagree because they believe that there are several ways that could help us to increase our knowledge better than the books such as real life experiences.

What is your advice for those who don’t read?

    Each one of them had different ideas and advices, but the most advice that was repeated is “reading will improving your knowledge”.  

  

Conclusion:-

  Finally we learned that there are some students that actually reading books and are interested to spending their time on reading; also we improve our skills by learning how to create an online survey.

  At the end each one of us should start reading because books are like a time machine, takes us everywhere on any time, it takes us around the world and centuries, so don’t miss this amazing trip in Mystery Revealed.