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or my survey, I decided to ask more than 5 questions and ask more than 15 people so I could get a better understanding of procrastination at bryn mawr college. I asked my soccer team specifically to fill out the survey so that I could compare how one's time management is affected by having a big comittment as oppose the other people I asked who may or may not have a big time comittment too.

in my first question, I asked  the survey taker just to note any big time committment they might have. in the second question, i asked the person to state how many hours of sleep on average she gets each night. question three asked how many hours are spent doing homework each night.

the next questions were answered on a 7 factor scale ranging from never, rarely, sometimes but usually not, neutural, sometimes but usually, most of the time, and always. question four asked the survey taker to respond using this scale to "what time do you usually start doing your homework" with answers as "throughout the day during my free time", "early in the morning before breakfast or any classes", "after my afternoon classes are over", "after dinner", "after my favorite tv show", "late at night starting from anywhere between 11-1", and "other, please specify". Question 5 uses this same scale and asks "How often are you distracted from doing your homework and by what factors" with the factors being "tv", "internet", "friends", "family", parties", "phone", "food", "dorm activities", "other, please specify".

Question 6 asks the student to use the same scale to rate how much she feels "stressed when thinking about all the work [she] has", "anxious when thinking about all the work [she] has", "stressed to physically sit down and do [her] work", "anxious to physically sit down and do [her] work", "stressed when [she] is actively procrastinating (worry when watching tv, hanging out with friends, etc)", "anxious when [she] is actively procrastinating (worry when watching tv, hanging out with friends, etc)" and "(other, please specify". 

question 7 and 8 both use the same scale and ask "when you put off your work , are you conscious of any future consequences?" and "when you put off your work, are you anxious about any future consequences", respectively. the factors of these questions to rate are: "little sleep that night", "tired the next day", "stressed the next day", "grouchy the next day", "a bad grade on the assignment", "a bad grade in the class", "having more work for tomorrow", "not having time for a substantial meal", "a cycle of procrastination developing", and "other, please specify"

The last question just asks the student to add any comments she feels necessary.

 I feel that these questions will work well because they touch on a lot of different factors. It is very easy to ask generalized questions in a survey so if there are a lot of options and examples it is easier to get more specific trends and have less confusion. Also, using the same scale for most of the questions will work because it will make it easier to compare between questions.  in this way, the answers I get will have more value because there will need to be more thought put into them.  however, it will be difficult to create a single graph to represent all the data...i may have to do more than one.