Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts

Assignment 2 Brief

Course Code/ Course Title GKA 2043 Research Methodology

Programme Faculty Core Course

Academic Year Semester 2 20212022

Brief Date 10 May 2022

05 June 2022
Submission Date
3 Weeks
Duration
20%
Marks
Data Collection
Assignment Title
CLO1: Distinguish basic concepts of research processes in the creative arts field. (C2, PLO1)
CLO2: Develop a research proposal as the basis for an academic report writing for Final Year Project through reading,
evaluating, and formulating ideas for research. (C5, PLO2)
Project Objectives:
The main objective of this assignment is:
1. To demonstrate the student’s interpretation of data collection through selected tools and techniques selected.
2. To demonstrate the student’s skill in conducting research as part of the process in writing their research proposal
Project Brief:

You are required to select a real problem topic of interest from field of research. Based on the selected topic, you are
required to conduct a data collection activity to support your research design. As a researcher, you are all encouraged to
get involved with the data collection and report the findings based on your preliminary analysis. For the assignment, you
will do the following in a short paper:

 Describe the data collection activity itself (interviews, surveys, library research, etc.) AND why this specific form
of data collection was/were chosen. Be sure to explain why you think this kind of data will help you in your
design process. Also be sure to provide details about the activity: how many interviews, how long they took,
where they took place, how many questions asked in a survey, how did you selected your samples, how many
respondents, etc.
 Explain how you employed your data collection activity, for example: how you chose who to interview, how and
why you selected survey respondents, what books or journals you decided to research, etc.
 Present the results of your data collection. You do not have to completely analyze all your data but do make sure
you present the results of your research in your paper. If you did a survey, please attach a copy of the survey as
an appendix; if you did interviews, please attach a copy of the interview questions.
 Discuss any preliminary analysis of your data.

What do you need to hand in?

A report consists of the following Table of Content:
1. Introduction
2. Research Questions and Objectives
3. Research Design
4. Data Collection Techniques
5. Preliminary Analysis/Findings
6. Conclusion (Reflection of what you have learned throughout the process of data collection activities)
7. References (APA format)
8. Appendix (Images from data collections, samples of questionnaires etc)

Format:
Font: Arial/Times New Roman/Century Schoolbook
Size : 11
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Spacing: 1.5
Min pages : 8

Submission Guidelines:

1. Upload your Assignment 2 on Padlet in the eLEAP. You are required to type in your full name in the Padlet according
to the deadline given. The format of the file should be in in Words or PDF format only.

Evaluation Criteria:

The project will be evaluated based on the following evaluation criteria:

1. Knowledge and Understanding

2. Data Collection
3. Organization Of Data
4. Analyzation of Data
5. Reflecting on Learning Arising from Doing Research

Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Assignment 2 Cover Sheet

Topic of Research:
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 Subject Code: Subject Name:
Name of Lecturer(s):
Student’s Name and Matrics
No:

Due Date: Date received and approved (for office use only)

Plagiarism and Collusion are methods of cheating that falls under Peraturan Akademik Universiti Malaysia Sarawak para 11:
Etika Akademik

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the presentation of work which has been copied in whole or in part from another person’s work, or from any other source
such as the internet, published books or periodicals without due acknowledgement given in the text.

Collusion
Collusion is the presentation of work that is the result in whole or in part of unauthorized collaboration with another person or persons.

Where there are reasonable grounds for believing that cheating has occurred, the only action that may be taken when plagiarism or
collusion is detected is for the staff member not to mark the item of work and to report or refer the matter to the Dean. This may
result in work being disallowed and given a fail grade or if the circumstances warrant, the matter may be referred to a Committee of
inquiry for investigation. Such investigation may result in the matter being referred to the University Discipline Committee, which
has the power to exclude a student.

Note: Assignments are returned after being assessed by lecturer and to be collected from the lecturer’s office. Students should
endeavor to collect their assignments prior to commencement of next semester. All unclaimed assignments become the property
of the faculty and will become subject to destruction.

Student’s Statement:

I certify that I have not plagiarized the work of others or participated in unauthorized collusion when preparing this
assignment. I also certify that I have taken proper case in safeguarding my work and have made all reasonable efforts to
ensure that may work not be able to be copied.

Comments:
MARK:

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 FACULTY OF APPLIED AND CREATIVE ARTS
GKA 2043 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Assignment#2
Deadline | Week 10 |23 APRIL 2022

ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

Student’s Name and Matrics No:

OVERALL COMMENTS

Evaluator’s Signature and Stamp:

______________________________

Date of Evaluation:

___________________

Instruction: Please rate your student according to the marking criteria below. Fill in column “SCORE” for each criteria with 1/2/3/4 (Marks
in decimal point is not allowed).

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Criteria Poor Average Good Excellent TOTAL
SCORE
1 2 3 4
1. Knowledge and Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates
Understanding limited some considerable thorough
understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding of
the research the research the the
assignment assignment research research
assignment assignment

2. Data Collection Data collection Data collection Data collection Data collection
are not are not system is system is
appropriate to appropriate to appropriate to appropriate to
the operational the operational operational the operational
definition definition definition definition
Data are missing Only ONE data Length of data Length of each
from the collection collection data collection
assignment technique used session is too session is
and represented short to get a appropriate
representative given the data
sample collection
Only two data system
collection Data are
sessions are collected using
represented best practices
for the method
selected
Three data
collection
sessions are
implemented
over a minimum
of two days
3. Organization Of Data Students data is Student data is Students data is Students data is
very messy and somewhat clear, clear and easy to very clear,
hard to but may be read and organized and
understand. difficult to understand with easy to read and
interpret. minimal errors. understand.

4. Analyzation of Data Student does not Student has Student has Student has
seem to analyzed data correctly interpreted and
understand what mostly correct, interpreted and analyzed their
their data means with a few analyzed their data very
and represents. errors. data. detailed and
relevant to their
choice of
analysis tool.

5. Reflecting on Uses a limited Uses a moderate Uses a Uses a wide

Learning Arising range range of critical- considerable range of
from Doing Research of critical- thinking skills range of critical- critical-thinking
thinking to reflect on thinking skills to skills
skills to reflect learning reflect on to reflect on
on arising from learning arising learning
learning arising doing from arising from
from research doing research doing
doing research research

Total Score

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TOTAL MARKS
/20

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