Conclusions

From the responses given, Freshman (32 %) and Senior (28%) both had the highest responses to an improvement in communication. Although Sophomores ( 24%) and Juniors (16%) both experienced an improvement in communication. When looking at the difference between results in communication and negotiation, Seniors (60.9%) reported a greater improvement in negotiation than Freshman (8.7%), sophomores (21.7%), and juniors (8.7%). Freshman and Juniors reported the same percentages of improvement in negotiation. The differences in percentages were much greater when looking at purely negotiation improvement was a lot higher with seniors.
There was only two people who reported that their communication and negotiation skills did not improve at all.  After compiling our results, we found that there was a difference in between how freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors viewed communication and negotiation.  

It would be interesting to see with more participants in the future if people gave more detailed answers. Part of the difficulty with coding the data was the repetition of answers or answers that were incomplete. It was also hard to determine what comments were related to negotiation specifically or communication. In a lot of the responses, it seemed that participates combined the two ideas, so it would be interesting to have the questions separated to see if the results remained the same and seniors still commented on negotiation more than communication. With more information it would probably be easier to code the data and further split up themes that are related to negotiation. For example, they might say that being more open minded has improved their negotiation more than their communication.