Statistic and Research Methodology

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Subject: Statistics & Research Methodology (103)

Case No: 01

Graduation College Survey

Mr. Swapnil joined management institute for studying PGDM. The institute infrastructure was good, faculty was excellent, and lots of co-curricular activities were there. During guest lectures and inauguration function, all seniors have emphasized on overall personality development besides the fundamental subject knowledge. In fact few alumni insisted that leadership and attitude towards team work plays very important role in placement interview.

Mr Swapnil does not know how he will be able to participate in case discussions so he wants to prepare himself for the case study pedagogy. For practice, he wants to take a small project which would give him idea about survey and analysis. He therefore plans to carry out informal survey of his batch to understand about the graduation college of his batch mates. This would also build interaction with his batch mates. He wants to know how his batch mates prioritize different criteria of their graduation institutes.

Swapnil prepared following questionnaire:

Name: Age (in complete years):

Gender:

Graduation Degree:

Graduation College:

Evaluate your graduation college for the following criteria by giving marks out of 10.

Sr. No. | Criteria | Marks out of 10 |

1 | Infrastructure | |

2 | Academics | |

3 | Faculty | |

4 | Subjects availability | |

5 | Library | |

6 | Laboratory | |

7 | Computer Laboratory | |

8 | Placement cell | |

9 | College canteen | |

10 | Hostel facility | |

11 | Excursion tours | |

12 | Sports | |

13 | Extracurricular activities | |

14 | Distance from home | |

15 | Availability of transport | |

1. Collect information from 30 batch mates.

2. Calculate descriptive statistics for marks obtained for each criteria.

3. Rank the criteria on the basis of the descriptive...