Hello,
I have been studying in Computer Forensics Science in a University of Turkey in MS degree.
Now I am in thesis semester. My Project is about computer forensics education fundemantals.
I want to apply a questionnare to some institutions and organizations about Education Requirements and experts of Digital Forensics in Turkey. But I need some critical questions to measure requirements correctly. How procedure/method should I follow? waiting for your helps and opinions.
Thanks.
Şükrü ELVEREN
Sukru,
I am also working on my masters thesis and using a survey to collect information. I have an official advisor (not that great) and an unofficial adviser found on my own (who is very good). Some of the first advice my unofficial advisor provided me was to make sure the sample set is large enough that you get enough samples to have quality data. The reason being is that getting people to answer your survey is very challenging and so you are likely to get very few answers. So here is the 1st question you need to ask yourself. Can you find enough forensics labs in turkey to ask for help and then expect to get that help?
Next, in reading your question a few times I am getting the feeling you have not defined your topic sufficiently to get the questions you need. Or to put it another way your questions should directly support your thesis statement and to some extent will be obvious from your thesis. For example if your thesis revolves around the importance of education to the operation of a forensics lab. Then you will want questions to allow you to test your theory.
Some example questions
1. Does your forensics organization require a 4 year college degree? Y/N
2. Does your forensics organization require an advanced degree? Y/N
3. If a degree is required is it an internal or external requirement?
Government requirement | Organizational requirement | Lab certification req. | No Req.
4. What type of degree is required or desired?
Forensics | Security | Law | engineering | Any | None
As you can see from my examples, your goal is to work from less specific to more specific and try and not force the person into answering a question in a manner that gets you bad information. Or put another way garbage questions get garbage answers. The next thing that my example does is even if a degree is not required I am still collecting information on what the organization might desire. By expanding the data collection a little you give yourself room to still provide information to your thesis paper reader if your theory does not prove out. In this example if your research shows that a degree is not required to do forensics but they would like people with a forensics degree you can now provide direction for future study.