 What you're doing in each one of our lives, Father God, we come at the work of our hands into your mighty hands. God, we pray, Lord, we pray for your wisdom, Lord, your leading and your favor, Father God, even as we move forward in the things, God, that you have in store for us, Lord. Thank you, Father. And specifically, I just pray, God, for each student and for the research work, Lord, they have undertaken God for the topic that they have, Lord, submitted and, Lord, I pray for guidance, Lord, I pray for favor, Lord, I pray for open doors. Master, we pray that you will enable each one to, Lord, to do their very best. And I just pray that even as things take shape of Father God, that Lord, the output of Father God, the report of God will be a blessing to them personally, God, for what's ahead and also will be something that will encourage others as well, the body of Christ as well, God. We just wanna thank you and just give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, amen. Hey, yeah, so, welcome. Today, I just wanted to share a few thoughts and then maybe we just have a discussion on how things are going for us. So yeah, one of the things that I wanted to just tell upfront is that when it comes to other search work and some of the topics that we are handling, there could be other information about the topic, about the very things that you're looking at on the net, for example, Lord. So the thing is for us to avoid any kind of plagiarism, I'm just spelling it R-I-S-M, okay. So plagiarism, right? So what is this plagiarism is when we copy someone else's work, okay, someone else has done that and then we just copy that and use that in our report. Okay, so I understand from early interactions that many of us are doing this kind of thing for the first time. There are many who are actually, who've done it before. So I mean, you are experienced, you're seasoned. So you could also help others in the class. Maybe you have the class, I'm sorry, the group where you can share your input on how things can be done. So you can, that way help others as well. But often I just wanted to say that this is something that we cannot indulge in, like knowingly or knowingly, we might say, okay, this here's this wonderful information which is already there. So let me just use it as part of my report. Well, this is what plagiarism is. It's presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with their consent or without their consent, it does not matter. And if we kind of make it part of our work and without full acknowledgement, right? Without any citation of where you've taken that. So the idea is, when it gets into a report, people understand one who's evaluating things that, okay, this is something original, this is something. These are the works that it has already been, it's just referred to what is present there. So that distinction needs to be very clear. So when you present it as your own, then it becomes something that is plagiarized. So that we need to avoid that at all costs. So because there are other online plagiarism checkers, like online tools, which can actually kind of, when we just upload the document, they can actually check, go through the document, the application knows, okay, the section has been copied from this work, et cetera. So it can actually throw up that result, okay? So kindly avoid e-learning students or online students here, please avoid any form of plagiarism. If you're using content, which has already been presented, then you need to give the acknowledgement, cite it as, okay, this is from this particular book, the author, whatever, so you cannot just copy paste and then present it, right? That's something that I wanted to share. Okay, the other thing is, so some of our work is very academic in nature, like we are going deeper into the word of God or on certain topic and we are researching and we are presenting it. And some of it is very, it depends on a survey, if you are actually talking to people, like it's about what they've gone through, like for example, some topics are like burnout amongst spiritual leaders. And then there is also a topic of why the youth are not coming to church, some of you have these topics. So it requires getting some data, it requires gathering information from the target and not the target audience from the sample space, as you called. So the very people and the very behavior that you're trying to get information from, you need to, I mean, that you're trying to study, maybe it could be the problem of addiction, drug use among certain age group and even in the church. You know, so we are trying to gather information from real data, right, from getting some real data. So we can use questionnaires in order to use that in order to get the information. So we've been talking about that, okay, questionnaires. So if it's a questionnaire, the questionnaire can be like quantitative in nature. In fact, if it's quantitative, you're asking questions like yes or no, okay. Have you, you're asking, you know, let's say the question would be, have you ever been part of a creative team? Or does your church use any kind of creativity in order to, creative methods in order to reach out? Yes, no, you know. And the person who's responding to that is probably a ministry leader or a church member or a pastor. Okay, so that person just ticks or answers yes or no, and you get a quantitative analysis, okay. These are the number of churches that are actually using. So based on the number of the total of the yeses or the total of the noes, you come to a conclusion. Okay, these are the number of people who are actually using creative methods in their church service, their outreach. And these are the number of people who are actually not using, okay. And based on that, you can actually, and based on this and other questions, right. So people are saying, okay, I wish there were more creative ways. You know, I find things boring. I worry, it's not impactful, whatever. And then based on that, you form a conclusion, okay. We can be even more effective. So that in reaching out, like Asha is doing something on, you know, physically challenged people. And so what can churches do in order to, in order to reach out to them, in order to minister to them, et cetera. So you, so Asha would need to have a questionnaire to find out, okay. So who are these people who are actually getting left out, right. And also actually have them answer these kind of questions. Do you, would the church, you know, would you feel, or how do I put it, you know, would it does a church that you go to, right. Does it, are there any challenges that you face, you know, in terms of physical infrastructure, you know, I'm not able to sit there properly and not able to go into the place. You know, I use a wheelchair, you know, there's no wheelchair access to that place. So you might have, you know, for a wheelchair user, you might have a thing, you know, are you able to, are you comfortable? Are you able to get into the, you know, the church building without any problem? Are you able to use their washrooms or restrooms without any problem, you know? What are some things, so that, then that would be a yes or no kind of a thing, which is a quantitative analysis, okay. There's a question that can also be a qualitative analysis, where we are asking questions like, well, the same example of, you know, physically challenged. So maybe ministering to physically challenged, you know, people. So we can ask, you know, what are the different ways by which the church is reaching out to the physically challenged, the physically challenged, you know, people. What are the ways that you are, what are some things that you have in place as a church, in order to make this, make the church more inviting, make the church accessible to people who are in this kind of a, in this kind of a space, you know, this kind of people. So then, you know, you're asking maybe a church member, maybe you're asking a church leader, maybe a usher, maybe you're asking a pastor. So it'll be a qualitative response, okay. The church is doing this one, two, three, four, right. These are some things that we have in place. These are, so it's a qualitative, it's not a simple yes or no maybe. It's a qualitative, right. So, so that can be, so the questionnaire can be both quantitative and you can, you know, it can be a mix of both, that you have certain questions which are quantitative and you have some questions which are qualitative, okay. So you have some open-ended questions, right. What are, you know, open-ended where you are not giving the outcomes, you know, close-ended would be where you're saying, okay, choose from one of this, okay. Or on a scale of one to 10, how would you rate church's friendliness, you know, the church's ability to care for people on a scale of one to 10, you know, things like that. So those are close-ended. Open-ended would be we are actually giving the, you know, you're getting the response from the person. You know, you get in their own words and they can, you're not actually giving the answer for them to choose from, but you're actually giving them the freedom to answer. Now, it has advantages, it has its own disadvantages. The advantage is that the person can actually, you know, actually respond to what needs, whatever they've observed, whatever the challenges that are there and they can actually give a very, it can be a very lengthy response as well, right. It doesn't have to be just few things that you're, that you need to choose from. There can be no limits, but when you're putting together, when you're actually collating it, right, maybe you've asked some 30 people or 50, you know, you send the questionnaires to 50 people and you've got their response and then now a qualitative analysis or qualitative response to be able to put together and analyze how it's going to be little complex. It can be done, because you need to read through those 50 and you need to see what are those commonalities, you need to track that and you need to see what are the things that, you know, that are unique, right. You need to, you understand, right. People could have given, okay, here are some five ideas, here are some 10 ideas, whatever, based on the question and you need to be able to put that together. The quantitative analysis is relatively simpler. It can be just the number of count, the number of yeses, count, the number of noes, count the number of, you know, what is the rating that has come and you put that together and you form your conclusion, right. One part of it based on the questionnaire, right. So it can be open-ended, it can be closed-ended, it can be a quantitative questionnaire, it can be a qualitative questionnaire, okay. So, like a multiple-choice response would be typically a closed-ended. You can also have, you know, a range for people to choose from, to rate, you know, their various things, you know, the effectiveness of a certain ministry in a church and, you know, and just randomly and just mentioning a few things. So, you know, based on your topic, you'll be able to, you know, frame the questions. Okay, so the advantages of, you know, many when it comes to questionnaires and, of course, the disadvantage also is that, you know, when you get a non-response, right, to a particular question, that's, again, a disadvantage or maybe when people give some inaccurate response, right, because maybe they feel tired, oh, I need to answer this thing and then just give some response and we, in our eyes, we take it as a very authentic response and maybe it was not an authentic, inaccurate response, but we have to consider that as well. So, those are some disadvantages, but by and large, a questionnaire actually helps, okay. So, some kinds of questionnaires, how do we do that? It can be, you know, it can be an interview, right? It can be an interview in the sense you can either have a telephone conversation, but when you're doing a telephonic conversation and, you know, you have a set of questions, it has to be, you know, it has to be a minimal thing in the sense, you know, you're doing it all phone and you can't have a list of like 25 questions. People may not have the time, so maybe you can say, okay, I have just five questions, can you have the time to do this? Or can I call you later? No, there's five questions. So, five questions, people are okay to answer on the phone and, you know, it'll be convenient. So, if anything more than that, it'll be good if it's a, if it's a print questionnaire, where you're meeting people, you're giving them, then they're doing, or it can be an online thing, right? Some of the, like your question paper for your, you know, your exams, like semesters, whatever you've done in the past, these are online, these are actually Google Forms, right? So, this is how they are actually, maybe they're actually a questionnaire. So, you can use Google Forms, you can use some, something like Survey Monkey, that's also another thing which is available, you can use Google Forms free and you can actually form your questionnaire and it's very, very versatile, very flexible, you can have open-ended, you can have one word, you can have, you know, so try it out, okay? So, those of us who are not familiar with Google Forms, I would say, you know, you start trying it out, you know, and then you can send the, you know, you send it, send the link out and people can respond and just like, you know, how sometimes we, you know, we send out the question paper and then people say, you know, we've forgotten to certain give access, right? And they say it's not accessible, it's not a thing. So, those kind of issues are there. So, you just learn to navigate that, learn how to, you know, give proper access. So, then the people who actually click on the link, get the questionnaire, they can answer, they can choose, they can answer as in they can choose certain options, maybe certain things that you need, they need them to enter in, they can enter that and all that you are, all the things that they are, responses that they are actually giving, you have that option of an Excel sheet, you know, all the responses going to an Excel sheet, right? So, you could use that. Okay, let's, maybe we can look at a sample thing here, let me just see. I'm sorry, I should have just come prepared for that. Just give me a minute. Okay, let me just share the screen. Okay, so some of you know this already, so please excuse. Okay, I guess you can see, it's coming up. Okay, so you see, it's a typical Google form, right? And how do you access it, you, I guess you can see this as well. Let's see, no, okay, so you just go to any, you open your browser, Google, if you're using Google, I'm sorry, if you're using Chrome, just open your browser and then you type in Google forms, it would come and you can click on it. So, typically this is something that I've already, we had this last semester. So you type in these kind of questions. If you notice, Matt, these are close-ended questions, okay? Which of the following scriptures can be applied for marriage? These are, so these are six responses from which the student chooses from, right? Six responses, so it's a close-ended. So there's no, if the person is thinking of a seventh response, they can't obviously, this question doesn't allow them to do that. So it's a close-ended one, okay? So you choose your questions, what can be close-ended? If it has the potential to go beyond these seven response, six responses, then you make it close-ended, right? For you to get that actual information, okay? Okay, so things like this, you can have two of all's options, right? So you can actually make it out of Google form. You need to try it out and do that, okay? So here, I've very intentionally made it close-ended, okay? But you could have, you know, now this is an open-ended thing, right? Please enter, as given to the college, your name. Now that's an open-ended question. I could have, you know, selected a short answer so that it's just your name, of course. Maybe your first name, surname. But you can also have a paragraph, right? Suppose you choose a paragraph, then you can type in more, right? You can just go in and just keep typing in, typing in. Okay, so that's a qualitative response, okay? So where you're typing in, you want the person to actually write some information. Maybe you want their testimony, how they came to know the Lord. Make it a paragraph, you know, frame that question and make it a paragraph. So work at it, okay? Get comfortable with using this. And for those of you who need questionnaires, this is a very useful, you know, way of getting it. You can just send them the link, they can respond. So these are, you know, this is how you get the response. Okay, so when in your setting, you can actually set it in such a way that you can actually have a Google Sheet, Google Doc, the Excel Sheet, where all the responses, you know, whatever answers they are typing in here and where once they say submit, okay? So this is how it's going to look, right? So this is how it's, well, I've actually set it up so you can't respond and, okay, let's say I'm accepting those responses, then, okay. Okay, so this is how it will look, right? Your typical question paper. This is how it will look. So once I fill this in and I say submit, okay? And I say submit, it can actually go to an Excel Sheet. Okay, let me show that, okay. Yeah, I don't want to show the students marks. So I'll just move that. So I have a setting when you're actually making the form. All the responses go into a Google Doc, right? So an Excel Sheet where you have, you know, every question, you're able to see this, right? So every question is a column, okay? And where the student is entered. So, you know, all the responses come here. So, you know, so if you've sent your questionnaire to whatever 50 odd people, this link, you get the name of the person, you know, because you've framed your questionnaire in such a way that the name they enter, these things that they choose, all the responses come here. So it's easy for you to, you know, collate this, you know, put it together and oops, okay, yeah. So these are different ways. You can have either a print questionnaire, but then the thing is you'll have to again, you know, put it manually entered into an Excel Sheet. There can be a chance for errors. But if you use this, an E questionnaire, then it's very, very useful. It's easier to, you know, put analyze things. You can actually use that. But you need to be, of course, comfortable with Excel. You need to be comfortable with this. It's very simple, just simple functions that you can use, right? And some of you are maybe already used to this. You can help others as well. And, you know, there are other, I mean, YouTube videos actually which teach you how to do this so you can do that, right? Okay. So, yeah, I just wanted to share about that. Any questions, anything related to the work that you are doing, your project work, any clarifications that you might have? Well, you can ask now and you can get that clarified. Any questions? Is everything going on fine? You're working at it. Okay. So your silence means that everything is fine. The weather is good. The sun is shining. And, okay. Okay. Good. Abhinav says yes. Okay. Fine. So if there are any clarifications, you know, probably you are at the, you know, your information gathering stage. And you are, you know, those of you who are doing this, and you are, you know, those of you who are doing a very, okay, I got it. So you're working on it. Fine. So if there are any, you know, clarifications, you can always check, right? Also, I would say, you know, you can read through the, in the Classwork section, that book that was uploaded. Okay. Which is a concise guide to writing research papers. That would be very useful. You can go through that. And you'll find that helpful. Okay. In what you need to do. Okay. If there are no questions, we can, we can stop right here. We can end it here. Okay. Okay. Good. So I don't see any questions here. So we stop right here. And you're always, always welcome to email me. Right. Anything that needs any kind of thing in person, students, you know, whenever we meet in the Bible college, we can do that. E-learning students, if you're, you know, watching this video, you can always ask in the discussion thread. And I'll respond. Okay. Fine. So we'll close here. Right. Thank you. God bless. Bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor. Right. See you. Bye-bye.