Firstly, thanks very much to all those who have completed the survey thus far, all efforts greatly appreciated! We have got some really excellent data so Nejc is going to have a great time running his analysis once we have the sample. Nejc is a very keen and capable UG student, so its really great that so many of you are taking the time out to help him out - very much appreciated and I hope more people will continue to do so.
Next some context on the timeline for a project of this sort - the students have approximately 6-8 weeks to design a project (whilst also doing all their other degree work), get it approved from an ethical standpoint, prepare the materials and start recruiting participants. The main focus of my supervision across all 8 of my UG projects is that the research questions are valid and that the data collected will be useful. Both Nejc and I checked over the survey before sending it out, but human frailties being what they are I am not entirely surprised that a few typos got through - I can only apologise and seek to rectify any identified issues via the online system (which I should get time to do tomorrow).
In terms of the initial survey items related to situation awareness, sadly there are not a huge number of self-report questionnaires available for SA, the one we used has been previously validated in industry, and we sought to adapt it to aviation here. When using a pre-validated tool it is acceptable to adapt the questions, but not to change them significantly - as such it appears that a few are perhaps not entirely suited to aviation. This may be a little frustrating for participants but will actually help us to further edit and improve this tool for use in the aviation context - so all points related to that aspect of the survey are gratefully received and will be actioned for further study. Your help on this should continue to improve surveys from us.
Nejc plans to come on here to tell you more about the scenarios provided and why they are purposively short and a bit vague, but suffice it to say that we don't want to lead or overly bias your answers - different perspectives and different approaches are really important for the research, and we want to enable everyone to get across their own point of view.
Anyway I don't want to ramble on, I hope that helps answer a few of your questions - I will leave the rest of the responses to Nejc as the lead researcher, please be gentle with him as I would like him to be encouraged rather than discouraged