SECI2143 - PROBABILITY & STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS
Semester 2
Section 06
During the process of conducting the project, I have learnt a lot of things that may help me in becoming a better student. It cannot be denied that research and project-based experiences are one of the best ways in learning and studying certain knowledge. In this case, I have had a first experience in conducting and distributing my group’s survey for my PSDA course assessment. During the process of finishing this assessment, I did make a number of mistakes that allowed me to reflect and learned some valuable lessons in return. For instance, before distributing the questionnaire of my group’s survey, it involves several drafts before having the perfect draft to be distributed. In every draft of it, I realized that it is important to always do analysis to determine whether the questions asked are suitable with the objective of the survey.
However, due to lack of information and content that my group can obtained from the answers of our respondents in the draft of our survey, discussion would take place in order to renew the survey in a better form. Thus, my group made use of other sources of data to validate our findings on the result. For instance, for the first part in the project, which is Part A, my group and I need to always refer to the data type requirement according to the rubric while doing this project.
Through this assessment, I get to enhance my communication skills as my group need to do a lot of discussion to ensure the requirements in the rubric are fully fulfilled. Moreover, I also get the chance to improve my leadership skills as my team members give their trust to me to become the group’s leader. Despite the fact that there are some hardships I have faced while becoming the team’s leader, for instance the skills to distributing work among members and the difficulties in understanding others members’ ideas, I also cannot deny that all these hardships for sure shaping me into a more good and great student.
Next, I also want to reflect on the process of presenting the project. My lecturer, Dr. Chan Weng Howe told us that the presentation of the project will be in term of video. At first, I was clueless on how to record and create our project’s presentation video. The pressure of being the team leader really hit me hard as this video is important in getting good marks for the project. However, I realized that I need to bear the burden as I am the team leader. Hence, from my experience, my group decide to go with my suggestion in creating the video, which is by using Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Video. It is also a good method as we get to show our face while presenting the slide regarding our social media’s project. The hardest part during this process is when the government inform the country the PKP movement due to the Covid19 outbreak. One of our team members went home before we even started recoding the video. Nevertheless, it was understandable as the Covid19 outbreak is dangerous. Thus, I proceed the video recording slide presentation with my other 2 members, and it went smoothly, thanks to our good cooperation between one another.
In conclusion, writing the reflection of Project 1 has helped me to become a better student in the future as I get to know my weaknesses and thus correct it. I realized that all 4 parts in the project, which is Part A(Data Type), Part B(Data – Graphical Presentation), Part C (Format & Content of Report) and Part D(e – Portfolio) have their own purposes for the students to learn for their future benefits. Nevertheless, the PSDA’s project, which is Project 1 is a great learning material for the students in this course as we are given the opportunity to do statistical analysis in any perspective and thus do the synthesis of it. Thus, I want to thank my lecturer, Dr. Chan Weng Howe for always supporting us and giving us guidance while conducting this project.