Evaluation of questionnaire

I was asked to do some research about what my fellow students in college will want in a college magazine. In order to find out this information I made a questionnaire and distributed them to twenty students I tried to balance the total of male and female, but females seemed to be eager to fill it out than the males were. I wanted my questionnaire to be accurate and not rushed so females would have given me the results I wanted. I asked ten questions that were relevant for me to know what my magazine must consist of to make my fellow students happy and interested in what I have to offer in a magazine. Also I will use the information to help me make my contents page. With the questionnaire that I have conducted I have found out some interesting things. One for example is that over fifty percent of the people I asked read magazines occasionally which is interesting because before I conducted this questionnaire I thought that magazines were generally read by females and none by males so with this information I have to have topics that are suitable for both genders and the colours that I am going to use will not be too feminine. I know that interest will be shown in my magazines because with help of the fourth question I asked which was what type of magazines are you interested in and there responses will be featured in my content page which means that I can provide a little bit of everything. With the question that I asked the participants were mostly interested in music and gossip which immediately tells me that even though my magazine will be educational based that it should also feature fun stuff like entertainment. In the entertainment part will be the two subtopics that were chosen which were music and gossip. In order for my magazine to be read I have to give the pupils what they want and ask opinions on certain things for example, I asked them the question what should I name the magazine if it was to be issued they had to choose between six names. The two successful names that were picked were what’s new and The latest so any of those two will be good for me to use because they both show almost the same level of popularity. The second important question for them to ask is what colour schemes they will like to see in the magazine. The most surprising thing for me was that was many people didn’t choose the options I gave them in fact up to eight of them chose the option other. Choosing a colour will be hard for me because I don’t know if I should consider some of the options they put down or to go for the colours that got chosen the most out of my options which were green and red or pink and white. My articles have to be short and straight to the point the pupils said that they prefer short articles and I don’t want them to get bored and not read the whole magazine.
So I have discovered that pleasing everybody with this college magazine is going to be a hard thing because I only asked 20 people in the school out of more than 500 students so my answers are only a small percentage of what the college actually wants. So I could have improved my results by asking more than twenty students. The information will help to some point because I do have a general outlook on what should go in my contents page. Before I did the questionnaire I was clueless in what I should put in my contents page.

photos for magazine