A PROPOSAL TO RESEARCH THE INTERNET ACCESS PREFERENCE OF STUDENTS

IN IPGK GAYA

Introduction
Internet is the basic need of todays generation. Without it, we may not be able carry
out tasks systematically. Acquiring information from the internet is quite easy at this age and
basically anything about everything can be found on the internet. The problem is that it is
quite hard for us to choose the right internet service provider for our daily life usage. This
problem is clearly noticed in the life of college students who in this day and age, desperately
need internet as a basic necessity.
Objectives
The main objectives for this survey is to find out the preferred internet subscription
configuration of Gaya Teaching Institute students. Other than that, we also are conducting
this survey to give future college intake a brief hint on how to choose the right internet plan
for their life in college. Because of that, would like to do a survey to determine the type of
Internet service provider that the current college students are using, what plan are the
subscribed to, the device they use and why they prefer it.
Our survey includes both preferred internet plan configuration and the preferred
device that they are using to provide them with internet access. Our survey also functions as
a benchmark for the most suitable internet service provider and internet plan package for
students in terms of price, speed and reliability. Besides that, we also want to find out how
much an average student would want to spend for internet accessibility and how much data
quota do an average student need in order to survive college life.

Importance of the Study

This study will be important as we need to choose the most preferred internet
service provider for the benefit of college students. Since we are in the 21st century, the
learning style has changed. We are gradually moving from the traditional way of teaching
and learning to a more modern way of learning in which technology is involved. Textbooks
are replaced with electronic gadgets such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. They are
useless without Internet access which connect us with unlimited information. Therefore, a
reliable internet service provider is very essential for todays classroom.

Literature review
Based on a study done on some college student on 2008, it is stated that up to 49%
of student first began using internet in college and about 86% of all college student had gone
online (Jones, 2008). Other than that, we also know that student usually get stressed out by
internet delays, but never made a complaint about it to the service provider. (Sears, Jacko, &
Borella, 1997). This is because, the use of internet among students is to solve various
educational task (Khananov, Polat, de Morentin, & Moisseeva, 2003) and this is proven as
the internet is an innovation with a lot of potential for both teaching and learning (Gibson &
Oberg, 2004).
Methodology
Participants
The study is targeted to all Gaya Teaching Institute students. Each classes consist around
14 - 25 students. There are five main options in our college, which are English, Bahasa
Malaysia, Mathematics, History, Pendidikan Islam and Art. The students involved in the
study come from mixed socioeconomic status, race, and gender. Students will also range in
a wide variety of Internet service provider usage.
Materials
We use Gmail and Whatsapp to and keep track on our survey and communicate with
each other after lecture classes. Moreover, we made the survey form using Google Docs.
We will also be using Google Docs to distribute the survey forms online by generating a
link so that it could be easily accessed by everyone.
Procedures
The study will be done in Gaya Teaching Institute. The data collection will be
scaffold depending on the data. Students fill up the Google survey form online by accessing
the link that will be given. The questions will be rated from the scale of 1 to 5, and free
response. The survey form consists of two parts. Part one will focus on the type of internet
service the respondent uses, how much data the respondent uses and how much they pay
for their data. Part two focuses on the device used by the students. For example, the device
they use to surf the internet and how reliable it is. Surveys will be collected and analysed
from time to time until all the respondents have answered the survey form.

The questions that we brought up in our survey will help us to collect all the
data needed for this study. The questions are about internet service provider that the current
college students are using, what plan are the subscribed to, the device they use and why
they prefer it. For example, we will ask what internet service provider they are subscribing to
and the respondent will choose the answer provided according to what internet service
provider they are currently subscribing to.
Section 1
Question
1. What is your gender?
2. What is the major course that you are
taking in your college?
3. What Internet Service Provider are you
currently subscribing to?
4. How would you rate your preferred
Internet Service Provider?
5. What type of quota pack do you
subscribe for?
6. How much is your monthly payment for
your Internet plan?
7. For Peak and off-Peak quota pack users,
how much is the total data quota do you pay statistical data on how much internet quota
per month?
8. For all day quota pack users, how much
data quota do you pay per month?
9. How would you rate your monthly quota
Explanation
Respondents are required to provide their
gender for us to be able to differentiate the
needs and preferences of internet service
provider between male and female college
student.
This question helps us to investigate which
Internet service provider is used the most
among the respondents with their
respective major course.
Respondents are required to choose the
internet service provider they are
subscribed to. For example, Celcom, Maxis
or Digi. This question will help us to
determine what internet service provider
that students use in IPGK Gaya.
Respondents will rate their internet service
provider according to their experience using
it. This question is crucial since it will help
us determine the best internet service
provider.
We will ask the respondents either they use
a all-day quota pack or peak and off-peak
quota pack.
This is also an important question where the
respondents will have to answer how much
they pay for their internet plan in a month.
This questions are meant to provide us with
does each student actually need.
Quota usage may vary from one person to
usage? another. They might use a little amount of
their quota in a month or they might use
more. Respondent will rate their internet
usage in a month.

Section 2

1. What is the device that you use to This question is asked to the respondents to
provide you with Internet? find out the type of device used by them to
 access the Web.

2. What device do you often use to access Respondents are required to answer this
the Internet? question for us to be able to determine the
device that students prefer to use to access
the Internet.

3. How is the reliability of your device This question is meant to provide us the
towards providing you with Internet access? reliability level of the prefered device that
the student use towards providing them with
internet.

4. How would you rate your average This question is meant to provide us the
Internet speed? average network speed provided by the
device that the student are using.

5. In less than 50 words, tell us why do you We would like to find out opinions of
think that Internet access is important for respondents by asking them a free
you as a college student? response question.