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This assignment tests your ability to design a research project, create your own questionnaire, analyse data, and write-up how you did so in a style consistent with prIt is very crucial to read the all information in the file in order to cover all the points. However, this is not essay, it is research method which you need to follow every single idea provided above.

The introduction has 1000 words as metioned above. One missed point could make the assignment out of topic. Finally, I will upload another file which is the module answer and it is very similar to this one and make sure that you avoid plagiarism and paraphrase everything you write. Finally, if you have any questions related to the requirement feel free to ask.oper aviation/management journal article.

This assignment tests your ability to design a research project, create your own questionnaire, analyse data, and write-up how you did so in a style consistent with a proper aviation/management journal article. 

The assignment will be marked out of 100 and will be worth up to 40% of the overall marks for this paper.

Make sure you read through this assignment brief and that you fully understand what is required of you.

General aim

Imagine that you have been given funding of NZ$20,000 to undertake a project for the New Zealand Airports Association (NZAA) and Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) to compare levels of passenger satisfaction of travellers on international flights arriving and departing from airports in NZ that operate scheduled international flights.

The funding stipulates that you must use survey/questionnaire methodology and that your end result will rank the airports from best to worst, in terms of passenger

satisfaction; apart from that, you may conduct the study however you like as you are the expert in conducting research.

The funders expect the final report to be written up like an academic article that might be submitted to a journal that uses APA style formatting. In addition to finding out which airports have the most satisfied passengers, they have also asked that you investigate if there is a difference between the satisfaction levels of: i) male and female passengers; ii) younger (< 30yrs), middle-age (30-55yrs) and older passengers (>55yrs); iii) business travellers and leisure travellers; and between business, economy and premium economy passsngers.

It is up to you how you operationalise and measure ‘passenger satisfaction’, and also how you design, format, and administrate a questionnaire. However, you must justify what you do and you will be marked on the completeness and the logic of what you have done. You will also need to collect some demographic information from your participants, such as age, gender, and reason and class of travel. You should also consider the amount of participants you will try to get to complete your survey.

  How to write-up your assignment

You are to write-up this assignment in a style (use APA formatting) consistent with that suitable for publication in an academic journal. You should therefore begin with an ‘abstract’. Next should be your introduction, in which you explain why airline passengers’ ‘level of satisfaction’ is an important consideration for economic viability and how previous researchers have operationalised and measured it. You should also include literature on differences due to gender and age, and possibly on class of travel and reason of travel, if you can find any that seems relevant. Your ‘introduction’ should be around 1000 words. It will require ‘proper’ academic citations and references (e.g., up to around 20) and they must be in APA style. You do not need to add a hypothesis, but you can if you want to. Up to 20% of the marks for this assignment will be awarded for the content and clarity of expression of the introduction. Try to emulate the style you see in proper journal articles that you have read/cited.

NOTE: Do not format your assignment so that it is in multiple columns on each page. Use only MSWord and do not convert the file to PDF format before submitting for marking.

After your introduction, just as you would see in a real journal article, you require a method section. Under the appropriate sub-sections, your write-up should include an explanation of how you would ‘operationalise’ the concept of ‘satisfaction’, in the context of passengers, which should explain why you asked questions about the specific areas that you used, whether your items were ‘statements’ or ‘questions’, and why you chose the response format that you did. Also explain how you would administrate your questionnaire: how you would get people to fill out your questionnaire, how you would select who would be participants and how many you would need, and an overview of who the participants would ideally be.

Questionnaires are used for a purpose, so, in the appropriate section, you must also explain in detail how you would analyse the completed questionnaires you collect. This will probably be best in the ‘materials’ sub-heading of the method section. The overall method section is worth up to 40% of the marks for this assignment.

You will require a short results section. This is worth up to 10% of the marks awarded for this assignment. Here you should report the descriptive statistics for your sample (because you obviously haven’t collected any data, you must make this up). Also in the results section, you should describe:

1. i) What statistical test would you use to explore if there is a difference in the mean overall ratings of male and female passengers (assuming you had an appropriately large number of participants);

1. ii) How you might test if there is a difference or relationship between young, middle aged, and old passengers’ overall scores;

iii) What statistical test you might use to see if the difference in satisfaction between airports is statistically significant.

Next, write a brief discussion section. In this section, worth up to 10%, you should speculate on any potential limitations to the study you have conducted.

The questionnaire that you have designed must be added after the reference list, as an appendix. Questionnaires that are particularly good and professional looking will receive extra bonus marks, so make an effort with design and presentation. You are not to add a link to a google doc or anything like that. You can attach screenshots or images of your questionnaire.

Good presentation/design of the questionnaire, appropriate wording, correct APA style referencing, and effort will gain you up to 20% of the marks for this assignment.

For the whole assignment, I would expect a word length of approximately 2500 to 4000 words (not including references).

General tips

Your ‘article’ should be written clearly and simply, to the best of your ability. It should be spell-checked and grammar-checked. Try to emulate what you will have observed to be the style in proper academic journals. So try not to write long unwieldy sentences or use big unnecessary words. Do not use jargon. A plain, easy to read style is what will communicate your knowledge the best. It would be a good idea to read a few journal articles which report the development of a questionnaire.

Things to know

It is very crucial to read the all information in the file in order to cover all the points. However, this is not essay, it is research method  which you need to follow every single idea provided above. The introduction has 1000 words as metioned above.  One missed point could make the assignment out of topic. Finally, I will upload another file which is the module answer and it is very similar to this one and make sure that you avoid plagiarism and paraphrase everything you write. Finally, if you have any questions related to the requirement feel free to ask