调查报告范文2 (英文)

1.Introduction

L ibrary is always a symbol of the university. It provides college students with many useful resources. At the same time, how to make full of the resources becomes a new problem for college students. For that purpose, the present survey is made.

1.1 Purpose

The survey sets its goal at investigating how well the college students can take advantage of the resources provided in our school library. Then, we hope to give some suggestions to our school library so that it can be improved in some aspects.

1.2 Subjects

In order to make the survey more persuasive, we did the research among students in our university including both undergraduates and postgraduates. 157 copies of questionnaires in total were handed out and 150 were collected back which are effective. Interviewees are from different majors and different grades. 41 of them are freshmen, 42 are sophomore, 21 are junior students, 30 are senior students and 6 are postgraduates.

1.3 Time and Place

Time: The survey takes about one week, from November 10th to November 16th, 2008. The questionnaires were distributed on November 10th and collected back on November 11th.

Place: Hebei Polytechnic University

1.4 Instrument

Questionnaires are used to collect data. Considering the questionnaire in English may bring some trouble to the interviewees with different English levels, we adopt the Chinese version instead of the English one (See English and Chinese versions in appendices).

The interviewees are selected at random to make the data more reliable. For instance, the questionnaires are given to the students studying in classrooms and to those staying in dormitories. What’s more, students from all grades are made sure to participate in this investigation.

2. Data Collection and Analysis

On 10th November, we investigated 157 students, among whom 150 returned their questionnaires. The rest did not return or finish for some reasons.

To ensure the validity of the survey, the six members in our team were divided into three groups to hand out the questionnaires, going to different places and investigating different students. Most of the interviewees were willingly to help us with the survey. They finished the questionnaires carefully. Among the questionnaires returned, some questions were not answered, and some were answered casually, which brought us some trouble when we did the data collection.

In general, most of the information we collected was useful and accurate.

2.1 Data Analysis on the Use of Books

The analysis on the use of books is based on Question 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

2.1.1 Frequency Analysis

According to Question 2 and 4, we get a result as follows (see Figure 1).

Figure 1