Week 5 Learning Team A Reflection Summary

April stated: This last week was a bit stressful because of all the work that needed to be done, but I had a lot of help from my wonderful team mates. This week I learned about content analysis and what it does for businesses. I enjoyed our team assignment because our topic was fun to work with. We were able to come up with different ways to improve employee morale. It was great because as working citizens we were able to relate to the topic and give out some suggestions that we would like to see in our own workplaces. I was able to learn more about hypotheses because in week three I was responsible for coming up with hypotheses. All in all this was a good week.

Charles stated: In this week's reading I learned about data analysis and how it is collected, edited and coded. Data collection can be performed in many ways through pencil and paper methods on up to more technical data collection methods through computers and the internet. With editing data it is important to make sure that the data is not skewed or if the data may throw off the measurements. Coding is important so that analysis can be looked at using simple methods. This makes the analysis much easier to compute. When reviewing the data it is important to make sure that it can easily be read and understood. A myriad of tables, charts, and diagrams can be used to present findings in the research process. These items help to tell the story and support the hypothesis or answer questions from the research. Like most of the reading, I found it to be informative and back up what I already know about research. It put things into better perspective and made the nuances of research easier to understand. For DQ 1, I found it interesting how companies like Reputation.com use content analysis to offer services to customers to protect them against "bad press" from