What If - Self evaluation

What If...Self Evaluation

What problem did you identify?

We identified that there was a problem with the governments intention raise the cost of university fees.


What evidence did you find to support your decisions?

We found evidence of how the rise in tuition fees will affect the time and ability of the students to pay off a larger debt. We found a website where we could calculate the estimated time taken depending on your income and debt size. We researched ways to make people aware of the impact of the rise in fees on the students, the universities, the jobs and the economy. We asked people in the protest what they felt about the government making this change. 


What methods did you use to gather your evidence and what forms did it take?
Qualitative Primary Research: We asked people in the crowd how they felt about the rise in fees and some people noted this on our protest banners

Quantitive Primary Research: 

 
Qualitative Secondary Research: We reserach exitsting articles, internet protest sights and blogs for information and views on how people felt about this and why. 

Quantitative Secondary Research:  Facts/Figures such as the total cost of debt an average student will graduate with. The time taken to repay this, on an average wage. The cost of the loan when David Cameron was at Oxford - to use as comparative information on the banners.

What methods of research did you find useful and why?

I felt that the secondary quantitate research was more useful as we could use this facts and figures such as 'David Cameron only paid £1,594 per year for his tuition fees and we could compare these to the rising price of £9000 per year. 

How did these inform your response to your problem?
We found that was a strong difference in the amount tuition which the Prime minister paid to now and how that by rising the tuition fees it will have a negative effect on the number of students who are able to apply and attend university. It makes university 'more for the elete'.ve

What methods did you encounter as problematic?
Primary Quantative 
How did you overcome this?
We asked people around our college but didn't manage to gather a broader range of data. 
What research could you have carried out that would have proved more useful?
To see the result of the voting, despite finding out after the project that the vote had been passed and the fees are going to be paid - it would be interesting to find out down the line how much this has really effected the country and students. 
List five things that you have learnt about the design process over the last two weeks.

1. Research thoroughly
2. Primary research provides a better and more relevant route for the project
3. ability when presenting work in a powerpoint, try and sell it to its best ability by providing more information on the slides rather than talking about it - talking visually is more effective and engaging
4. Have a clear design process and developments throughout
5. use different ways to record and get the brief noticed in the outside world e.g. going out there and standing in street/joining protest

List five things that you would do different next time.

1. Collect more primary research
2. Find something which had a problem rather than thinking of a subject and trying to create a problem out of that!
3. More visually eye catching messages/colour
4. Organise group meetings better
5. have more qualitative research