Mole Fraction And Density

Les 'Projets de Fin d'Etudes' en Tunisie

Over the last three years I received a dozen requests from students graduate or masters, asking me to fill a questionnaire as part of a thesis or a project End of Studies (of the bloggers, the Tunisians abroad, etc..). I usually respond to these questionnaires anyway, although I am very uncomfortable the idea that such research is entitled to a degree.

I did four years of university education in Tunisia and I know very well how the system works, at least in schools (trade). In general even if the education is good, memories are devoid of rigor and creativity for reasons that escape often (but not always) the willingness of students: lack of research training, mentors HAUTIN and unengaged, sloppy memories in the space of two or three summer months, free university education and therefore not respected by teachers and students, etc..

If I had to evaluate the same memories that I have seen 10 years ago in the libraries of some schools but also to the university campus I think very few of them pass. If I have an advice for a graduate student is taking your memory or CTB very seriously because it is a unique opportunity to test the quality of your training and to establish contacts with potential employers. For that, before formulating questionnaires and send them to the world, have in your head and on paper a clear idea of your project by asking yourself the following five questions:

- What is, or what, my research questions?
- Why this / these issues need to be processed? Why do they motivate a research paper? Which type of literature this work will he help?
- What is my research methodology?
- What type of empirical work requires til? Who exactly are the participants and what are the reasons for this choice?
- A type of hearing this work is for there?

Here, if you can answer all these questions you are ready to begin the job. You are also able to communicate with stakeholders who can provide the information necessary for your study. So when you contact them, summarize the objectives of your research and follow the approach you instead of swinging their questionnaires as second-class journalists (and I say this in all friendship because you have all the time you put in place of the meeting, and remember that people do not want it to do).

finally Know that there are ways to conduct more rigorous qualitative research as sending questionnaires by mail. You can conduct interviews (and again there are many types and styles), ethnographic studies, focus groups, textual analysis, phenomenological analysis, etc.. It depends on the type of questions that you treat in your search. All research does not actually motivate a methodology based on questionnaires.

Good luck to all.