Group Project 1

Our group project started with a very broad scope of possible research questions. We were all over the place to put it nicely. After two weeks of throwing ideas around, however, we finally landed with our research question: What makes cadets  follow the rules more than others. I know that other groups are doing research along the same lines, and while that was immediately discouraging, now I think it will make our research stronger. It will be interesting to see if we test the same factors or variables. If we do, and find similar results with the other group, it just strengthens our findings. One factor that I think we will consider heavily is what company you are in, i.e Alpha doesn’t follow the rules as closely as Delta. Is this because of the TAC officer? The CO? The company culture? These are the questions I would like to consider. I significant part of this process is going to be defining ‘following the rules’. Our group has leaned towards a definition that is based off demerits. How we collect this information, more than likely via survey because Commandant records might be hard to get,  is where we will run into issues and is something I will address in my next post.