To gain more insight into the minds of Rowan University students, my cowriters and I decided to create a survey consisting of ten questions about students' eating habits in general. Each group member surveyed five random people each (20 surveys total). A tally of the results can be found here. The surveys showed that many Rowan students' eating habits are not overly nutritious. It was discovered that, on average, students ate at fast food restaurants, such as McDonald's and Burger King, 2 times a week. When asked what they think about their nutritional health on a scale of 1 to 10, on average, students answered 6, which is in fact higher on the scale, but it isn't a 10.
We also wondered whether students just don't care about their nutritional health or if they do care, but don't have enough options on campus to lead a nutritionally healthier lifestyle. So we also asked students how they would rate Rowan's healthy options on a scale of 1 to 10. On average, the answer was 5, which isn't bad but it isn't great. This made us think that we should include a few proposals of what Rowan can do to make campus dining more nutritional to our collaborative project.
Besides helping us gather information on Rowan students, the surveys were also helpful in honing our primary research question. Initially, we had trouble figuring out what we wanted to write our collaborative paper on. Finally we came up with the question "How do college students see their nutritional health vs. what their nutritional health truly is." This was a good start, but we felt it was too broad. After getting the surveys back, we realized that focusing just on students' nutritional health would be interesting and challenging enough to research.
We also wondered whether students just don't care about their nutritional health or if they do care, but don't have enough options on campus to lead a nutritionally healthier lifestyle. So we also asked students how they would rate Rowan's healthy options on a scale of 1 to 10. On average, the answer was 5, which isn't bad but it isn't great. This made us think that we should include a few proposals of what Rowan can do to make campus dining more nutritional to our collaborative project.
Besides helping us gather information on Rowan students, the surveys were also helpful in honing our primary research question. Initially, we had trouble figuring out what we wanted to write our collaborative paper on. Finally we came up with the question "How do college students see their nutritional health vs. what their nutritional health truly is." This was a good start, but we felt it was too broad. After getting the surveys back, we realized that focusing just on students' nutritional health would be interesting and challenging enough to research.
