Data Collection Instrument

In this assignment, I wrote a Survey for my UWP 001 course research project, titled ‘Student Behaviors and Practices to Improve UC Davis Cybersecurity Readiness’. As part of this project, I intend to address the specific research questions: 1) What specific student behaviors and practices impact the levels of cybersecurity readiness at a college? and 2) What is the current levels of adoption of leading student behaviors and practices that would improve cybersecurity readiness at UC Davis?

The assignment taught me that a Survey is one of the most effective tool in conducting primary data collection and analysis in research (skills that are useful in education beyond the undergraduate level). I believe that it is very essential to draft survey questions that help us answer our research questions.

The most challenging part was drafting questions/items that help answer our research questions. This requires careful planning and drafting, however, once you do that well enough, then the rest of the research and analysis becomes extremely structured. The Survey provides the opportunity to think about and include various structural elements like the research topic and its description, various types of questions, etc that could be further worked upon. The peer feedback was another helpful method that helped in improving the survey further, as it determined from a different perspective what could be an area of focus.