Great Job on calling the schools yesterday people !!
Now we have to focus on the police, and distributing our surveys.

1.Meeting on 9th June (Friday) ~ 2pm
Venue : Yvonnes House
Objective : Discuss the Police letter and call police and Get copies of Surveys ready for Sunday.
Present : Yvonne, Rachel & Hui Ling.

2.Meeting on 11th June (Sunday) ~ 11pm
Venue : Orchard Road MRT
Objective : Distribute surveys to people (Quota : 80)

Present : Yvonne, Celestine, Rachel & Hui Ling.

Thats all. Huiling <3

hey people!
we must distribut our survey!
one of the ways would be through the internet.
so i have created an onlien survey.
heres the link :
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=vnj89gpamwz05bv197345
everyone must pass the survey to their friends of age 13-17 k?
set.
done.
yay.
i'll call you guys to set a date then.

<3

We are going to have to have a meeting during the June Holidays to discuss our Survey Distribution and Letter to Police.
Everyone has to be active and contribute as to where and when we will have this meeting.


My Proposal

Places
1. Yvonne's House (Near RGS)
2. RGS (Convenient and everyone knows how to go there)
3. Library (Quiet and Peaceful)
4. MacDonalds / KFC (Convenient for Food)

Times / Dates
5th June
6th June
7th June
8th June
9th June
(Meeting must be held ASAP!)

Huiling <3

Research Studies meeting 3
Date:2nd May 2006
Time: 1. 50p.m.
Venue: Kitchen 1
Present: Celestine, Yvonne, Huiling and Miss Chionh
Absent with apologies: Rachel (had to attend Geography make-up lesson)

1.

Contacts
1. Miss Chionh said that we have to give her a copy of agenda before any research studies meeting.
- We can email the soft copy to her
- We can put the hard copy in her locker

2.

Portfolio
1. Miss Chionh gave us an example of her Sec 4 students’ portfolio. The portfolio:
- should have a content page to organize the information correctly
- have your agenda, minutes, drafts, proposal, interviews, surveys and comments
- should have the date clearly named on every piece of work we put in the portfolio

2. Miss Chionh suggested us having a timeline of what we are going to do until the end of the year

3. Miss Chionh informed us of the format of which we should type minutes:
- General topic and branched out to 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- To end the meeting with ‘With no other matter arising, the RS consultation ended at..’
- To name who typed the minutes and who confirmed them


3.

Title of our RS project
1. Miss Chionh suggested alternatives to our title
- She suggested that we could put 11pm curfew in inverted commas
- We should improve on our title and get a clearer idea of what we are doing. Are we doing on just opinions and alternatives from students and parents? Or can we have a solution to it and investigate the curfew further?
- Consequences of teens staying out late – why the police force is so concerned? Juvenile crime rate increases
- How teens staying out late can affect the society
- We can do research on the net on the crimes teens that stay out late do
- To look at two sides of the curfew – for and against the curfew


4.

Presentation of the Sec 4s
1. Questions and answers – the judges will flood the students with many questions and so we have to be very prepared
2. Group members have only 5mins to talk – have to organize your time properly- if u exceed the time limit, your marks will be deducted
3. Presentation of our RS project will be done sometime end of the year

5.

Allocation of work
1. We have to have a work breakdown to allocate the work of each group members. We need to have duties such as taking down the minutes, writing the reflections and if necessary, posing questions for the survey

With no other matters arising, the meeting ended at 2.40pm.
Minutes typed by Celestine Lim.
Confirmed by :

Chow Hui Ling (the UNFORTUNATE Group Leader)

PS. well done Celestine ^^

Research Studies Survey : The 11pm Curfew on Teens
Hello☺. We are a group of Sec2 students conducting a survey for our Research Study on the 11pm curfew set on Teens and the Teens who stay out late. We hope you will take the time and honestly answer our questions.
1. Do you stay out (hang around) after 11pm?
Frequently
Rarely
Never [Move on to Question __]

2. How often do you do so?
Everyday
About 1-5 times a week
About 1-5 times a month
About 1-5 times a year
Never

3. Why do you stay out (hang around) after 11pm?
I didn’t know about a curfew
I have things to do (Such as______________)
Others : _____________________________

4. Who do you stay out (hang around with after 11pm?
Nobody (Alone)
My friends
My family
My relatives
Others : ____________

5. Do your parents/guardians know of your whereabouts when you stay out (hang around) after 11pm?
Yes
No

6. Do they allow you to stay out (hang around) after 11pm?
Yes
No

7. How long do you stay out (hang around) after 11pm?
Less than 15 minutes
1-3 hours [12am-2am]
4-6 hours [3am-5am]
Till the next morning [Around 7am]


8. Where do you go and what do you do while staying out after 11pm?
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

9. Do you think it is safe to stay out late after 11pm in Singapore?
Yes
No

101a) Do you think the 11pm curfew on teens is effective?
Yes
No
Both
101b) Why?
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

11a) Do you think that there are better alternatives to the 11pm curfew set on teens?
Yes
No
11b) Please state the alternative.
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

12. Why do you think teens stay out late (hang around) after 11pm?
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________


13. What are your opinions on the teens who stay out late?
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

Thank you for completing our survey. We appreciate your help and opinions ☺

Survey might be too long >.<

<3 Huiling

Reflections of research studies discussion today

Today, everyone was present. We met at about 1.40 pm and waited for our teacher-mentor, but could not find her. In the end, we decided to go the canteen and have a bite during our discussion.

The discussion today was very fruitful as we finalized everything. Firstly, we have decided on our title of our research studies topic. We thought of many other ideas, such as Ideas regarding the 11 pm curfew on teens. However, we felt that it was quite brier and probably too shallow. So after much brainstorming, we decided on . Then after that, we carried on to the formal email that we were urged by the teacher to have last week. We have already created one which is rgs_research_studies@hotmail.com and have already started activating it. We have decided to organize ourselves so that our works can be easier. Any document that we want to hand up to the teachers, we can send it to the email so that all of the group members can edit.

Next, we allocated the work, on which survey questions we are supposed to do. Two of us are doing MCQ while the other two are doing open-ended questions. We have also set a deadline, which is this coming Friday. We hope that everything can go as smoothly as we had planned. And the more specific details are included in the minutes.

In conclusion, all of us kind of finalized our plan on our topic and our plans. It also pays to be organized, now that we have planned everything properly, our work will be much easier.

The meeting adjourned at about 3.05 pm.

Typed by: Celestine Lim


<3 Huiling

RESEARCH STUDIES

Minutes of Project Meeting held in canteen on 25th April 2006.
Present: Yvonne Tan, Rachel Tan, Celestine Lim and Chow HuiLing

1.Apologies for absence: Ms Chionh (Teacher-Mentor)

2. Minutes of the last meeting: Minutes of the last meeting reviewed.

3.Matters Arising:
§ We needed an appropriate title that is more elaborate for our Research Study. After discussing, we came up with the title ‘Opinions And Alternatives On The 11pm Curfew Set On Teenagers.’ Which we will ask for the teacher-mentor’s approval.
§ We decided to do a survey to survey on students aged 13-18 years of age.
a) Each makes questions for survey (Huiling and Rachel will each do 5 open-ended questions; Celestine and Yvonne will do 5 MCQ questions.
b) Submit questions to email (rgs_research_studies@hotmail.com), deadline is Friday, 28th April.
c) Huiling will collate questions and make survey.
d) Other group members will do editing if required.
e) Final survey must be done by 1st May and sent to teacher-mentor by Yvonne.
4. Celestine will do a yahoo group for us: deadline is next meeting.

5. Minutes will be typed out by Rachel Tan by Friday 28th April and sent to our emails. Yvonne will send it to our teacher-mentor by Monday, 1st May.

6. Group reflections will be typed out by Celestine. Deadline is on Friday 28th April. Celestine will email it to our emails. Yvonne will send it to our teacher-mentor by Monday, 1st May.

Date of next meeting: 2nd May 2006

There being no further business the group leader, Huiling closed the meeting at 3.20pm.

Recorded by: Rachel Tan



<3 Huiling