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Planning a Student Survey

Often you will need to tackle a report$-$writing task as a member of a team. In such cases, the guidelines for individual report writing will still apply, but you will also need to manage the challenges that come with doing a project with others.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the following topics in the chapter:

$-$Conducting research to solve a business problem

$-$Using sampling to conduct a survey

$-$Designing an effective survey

$-$Conducting a report$-$writing task ethically

$-$Preparing reports collaboratively

Read the case and answer the questions that follow.

A year ago, your school's college of business instituted a policy requiring every business major to own a laptop computer that met certain criteria. Now the undergraduate dean has appointed a team of three students to find out how students feel about this policy. You're on that team.

The dean has left it to you three to design your research. But anticipating that a survey will probably be part of it$,$ he has informed you that his office can help facilitate the distribution of any survey your team wants to send out to undergraduate business majors.

Which of the following would not be a good step for the group to take at its first meeting?