KIT714 ICT Research Principles Assignment 2: Practical Quantitative Research Exercise Type: In-Semester, Individual Assignment Task Length: 2,000 words Weighting: 20% of total assessment for this unit Due Date: 11:55pm, 22 April 2022 Submission: electronic submission on MyLO Description: This practical exercise will engage students in a quantitative research exercise that will enable students to directly deploy skills, tools and techniques covered in the unit. Each student will be required to complete the exercise and prepare a written report that displays their level of quantitativeresearch understanding and competence. Objectives of Assignment: To increase understanding of the skills required to collect, analyse and interpret quantitative research data; To increase understanding of the relationships between data collection, data analysis and data interpretation when conducting quantitative ICT research; To develop skills and competence in the conduct of quantitative ICT research. In this assignment, we will be conducting an investigation of the luggage handling system’s efficiency at Melbourne airport. You have been presented with data across four terminals (T1, T2, T3, T4) in Melbourne Airport for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019. The airport is interested in understanding the efficiency of the luggage handling system across the 4 terminals and also to gauge if the automatic luggage scanners have made a difference in the efficiency of the luggage handling process. The researchers collected data on the average time taken for the first suitcase to arrive on the baggage carousel across all flights in a day. The researchers also collected data on the total number of luggages in the same time period. On 1 Jan 2019, the airport introduced the automatic luggage handling system in Terminals 2 and 3. Links to Intended Learning Outcomes #1 Produce a research artefact by investigating an ICT related problem #2 Apply different research methodologies to conduct ethical ICT research CSV heading Type Description Date integer A date sequence from 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2019 (1 to 365 in each year) Year integer Year (2018 and 2019) Teminal string Terminal identification (T1, T2, T3 and T4) Average time taken double Average time taken until the first luggage arrives on the baggage carousel (in minutes) Luggages integer Total number of luggages handled Requirements: Your task is to select and apply statistical analysis techniques to examine the data and derive some conclusions to the following questions: 1. Formulate a research question with respect to the airport’s interest. 2. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there is a significant difference between 2 independent groups. Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an appropriate chart. Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric test would be suitable for this data. Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results. 3. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there is a significant difference between 2 dependent groups. Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an appropriate chart. Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric test would be suitable for this data. Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results 4. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there are significant differences between more than 2 independent groups. Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an appropriate chart. Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric test would be suitable for this data. Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results. The output of your analysis will be a brief PDF report, including title, table of contents, page numbering, introduction/conclusion, appropriate headings and subheadings (for each of the four questions) with Harvard style of referencing. Analysis Tool: use JASP, as same as in the tutorial. Criteria Outstanding (HD) Very Good (DN) Good (CR) Adequate (PP) Poor (NN) Describe dataset using descriptors and visualisation methods (20%) Provided a complete and comprehensive description of the relevant data selected form the dataset with an appropriate visualisation method. Provided a mostly complete description of the relevant data selected from the dataset with an appropriate visualisation method. Provided a description of the relevant data selected from the dataset with an appropriate visualisation method. Provided a basic description of the dataset without an appropriate visualisation method. Provided no description of the dataset. Formulate research question and hypotheses for testing (20%) A research question is clearly stated and aligned with the airport’s interest. Hypotheses are all clearly stated and are aligned with the statistical tests being performed. Excellent discussion provided as to the appropriateness of the tests for the dataset and suggestions of alternatives available. A research question is stated and aligned with the airport’s interest. Hypotheses are mostly clearly stated and are aligned with the statistical tests being performed. Very good discussion provided as to the appropriateness of the tests for the dataset and suggestions of alternatives available. A research question is stated and not completely aligned with the airport’s interest. Hypotheses contain minor errors but are aligned with the statistical tests being performed. Good discussion provided as to the appropriateness of the tests for the dataset and suggestions of alternatives available. A research question is not clearly stated and not completely aligned with the airport’s interest. Hypotheses contain major errors but are somewhat aligned with the statistical tests being performed. Adequate discussion provided as to the appropriateness of the tests for the dataset. No research question is stated. No hypotheses stated. Apply statistical tests to a chosen dataset (30%) Correct use of statistical tests in relation to the stated hypotheses with follow-up tests where appropriate incorporating description and discussion of significance. Presentation is clear with appropriate choice of chart type incorporating error bars showing variance where appropriate. Axes are clearly labelled and appropriate for making clear comparisons. Captions fully describe figures. Mostly correct use of statistical tests in relation to the stated hypotheses with follow-up tests where appropriate incorporating description and discussion of significance. Presentation is clear with appropriate choice of chart type incorporating error bars showing variance where appropriate. Axes are clearly labelled and appropriate for making clear comparisons. Captions mostly describe figures. Mostly correct use of statistical tests in relation to the stated hypotheses. Presentation is clear with appropriate choice of chart type. Axes are clearly labelled and appropriate for making comparisons. Captions fully describe figures. Use of statistical tests. Presentation is clear with appropriate choice of chart type. Axes are clearly labelled and appropriate for making comparisons. Captions adequately describe figures. No use of statistical tests. Presentation is unclear with inappropriate choice of chart type. Captions do not describe figures. Discuss results from applied statistical tests (20%) Comprehensively discuss results in general and specifically, whether or not the results answer the research question. Solidly discuss results in general and specifically, whether or not the results answer the research question. Discuss results in general and specifically, whether or not the results answer the research question. Discuss results in general and not directly answer the research question No discussion of the results and findings do not answer the research question. Communicate research according to best practices (10%) A professionally formatted document using language that was suitable for publication in an academic setting. Accurate referencing provided using the Harvard method. Produced a professional formatted document using language that was appropriate for the audience. Mostly accurate referencing provided using the Harvard method Produced a document that was appropriately formatted with language that required improvement to better suit the audience. Minor errors in referencing provided using the Harvard method. Produced a document that was appropriately formatted with language that required improvement to better suit the audience. Major errors in referencing using the Harvard method Document was poorly presented and contained numerous spelling and/or grammatical errors. Referencing does not follow the Harvard method.
