The Study of Students Perceptions of On-campus ... - Research Bank

were mainly in the library or cafeteria.
4.2.2. Interviews
Each of the interviewees completed a survey before doing an interview.
Instead of writing the real name of participants, each participant was
given a code, such as participant S, E and L. These letters are the first
letters of their courses. These codes are used in the tables and the following
chapters as well.
For the entire data collection, there were sixty-four students in over thirty
different courses, such as in Language school, short course, undergraduate
study and postgraduate study. No participants for this research were
undertaking a doctoral degree.
In order to view the findings from interviewees clearly, the information
gathered from both survey and interview is present in tables and the open
questions are reported individually.
Sub-headings are given for information obtained from participants for each
question or a group of questions. For example the sub-heading “General
information on participants” contains a batch of information obtained from
the survey, such as the frequency and duration of the use of on-campus
WLANs; and the sub-heading “The convenience and inconvenience of use of
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) on campus” contains information
from the interview questions “What is the convenience of using WLANs on
campus?” and “What is the inconvenience of using WLANs on campus?”
The reason for grouping answers from questions is to make it easy for the
researcher to make sense of related information.
57