Abstract
The article is devoted to the collection and processing of sociological data using mobile and office computers in a workshop of sociological students. The relevance of these issues is due to the fact that new applied information competencies should be formed for the student in addition to his ability to work with questionnaires on paper, work on mobile and office personal computers in local and global computer networks with office programs and Internet technologies at present with mass the spread of computer and mobile technologies, the growth of the functionality of mobile personal computing devices, the increase in the number of developed services about online-survey, in the learning process, a sociologist student. These competencies are associated with the ability of sociological students to prepare and conduct case studies, use modern methods of collecting and preliminary processing of case data using mobile and office computers, apply statistical analysis programs for these data, and prepare final reports. The article shows how the authors solve this problem, relying on service programs for online questioning of Russian and foreign companies, as well as using their two developed programs. These programs run on Windows and provide a solution to the problems of data collection when filling out questionnaires on mobile and office computers. They are registered by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the Russian Federation and for several years have been used in the workshop of sociological students on personal computers. The article describes an example of the use of these programs in the preparation and conduct of a large-scale case study on the topic "Self-assessment by students of their level of computer literacy." The purpose of the study is to analyze the methods, technologies, tools and results of a large-scale questionnaire on the topic "Self-assessment by students of their level of computer literacy", on the example of which these competencies can be formed. During the study, the method of interviewing students according to developed questionnaires and a correlation analysis of the collected data and the results of computer testing were used. When writing an article, a comparative analysis of modern online questionnaire service programs of Russian and foreign companies was performed. In addition, two authoring programs were used, running Windows and providing a solution to the problems of data collection when filling out questionnaires on mobile and office computers. These programs are registered by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the Russian Federation and for several years have been used in the workshop of sociological students on personal computers.
Highlights
The most important and often the most timeconsuming task in the educational process of a student-sociologist is the development of technologies for collecting sociological data for their further processing
It is possible to fill out the questionnaires before starting a testing session on computers using linear or adaptive tests
The data in the questionnaires completed before testing in both subjects were very close and, below, on the example of the analysis of data from 18591 (6078) questionnaires completed before testing in Russian, some of the results of our study are presented
Summary
The most important and often the most timeconsuming task in the educational process of a student-sociologist is the development of technologies for collecting sociological data for their further processing. Approbation of the used programs and mass filling of questionnaires were provided at the stages of centralized computer testing in Russian universities. This example demonstrates in detail the technology of data collection before computer testing sessions, methods of statistical analysis of the collected data, the importance of the results obtained and, hopefully, further encourages students of sociology to master computer tools for data collection for solving applied problems. The advantages of the new technology include: 1) the quality of the collected data, ready for statistical processing (in the main file formats for processing, including .sav for processing in the IBM SPSS Statistics package); 2) the speed and convenience of the interviewer at all stages of his work (from the survey to upload data to the Central server); 3) savings in the cost of organizing and processing the survey data. The result will be an increase in the quality of information collection, increasing the reliability of the results
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