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Survey ProjectSlide2
What is it?
This semester we’ve been talking about different issues in education.
Now you are going to pick an issue related to Jennings Education and pursue it.
You are going to start with a
survey
And end up with an
infographic
. Slide3Slide4
What is an
Infographic
?Slide5
But First…
Your survey will be administered to students and/or teachers at Jennings High School about a topic relating to school or education.
Your survey will have 10-15 multiple choice questions about the issue or topic
You will eventually be responsible for analyzing and presenting the data in a visual way (so we can hang them up!)Slide6
Possible Topics
Homework: Effective or Not?
Homework: Why we do or don’t do it
School Uniforms: Do they make school better?
School Fights: Fun or Frustrating?
Jennings School Pride: Do we have it?
Favorite Classes
Jennings Dreams: What do we want to be?
Reading: How often do we do it?
(other topics could be related to sports, grades, parent support, after school activities, school safety, attendance, etc)Slide7
How to Make a Valid and Unbiased SurveySlide8
First Step
Brainstorm…
What is the topic of your survey
What is the objective, or what information are you trying to obtain
Make sure your questions specifically address the objectives you are trying to learn, for ex: If you are trying to make a survey on homework completion with high school students, you might ask “On a scale from 1-5, how often do you complete you homework” or “Which classes are you
most
likely to complete your homework? Slide9
Who is the audience?
If you are going to ask a small group you can ask everybody (called a
Census
)
If you want to survey a large group, you may not be able to ask everybody so you should ask a sample of the population (this is called
Sampling
) –
We will be doing thisSlide10
Types of Questions
A
survey question can be:
Open-ended
(the person can answer in any way they want), or
Closed-ended
(the person chooses from one of several options)
Closed ended questions are much easier to total up later on, but may stop people giving an answer they really want.
Example: "What is your favorite color?"
Open-ended
:
Someone may answer "dark fuchsia", in which case you will need to have a category "dark fuchsia" in your results.
Closed-ended
:
With a choice of only 12 colors your work will be easier, but they may not be able to pick their exact favorite color.Slide11
STOP HERE!Slide12
Question Sequence
It is generally best to try to have your questions go:
from the least sensitive to the most sensitive
from the more general to the more specific
from questions about facts to questions about opinions Slide13
What does bias have to
do with it?
If you are
Sampling
you should be careful who you ask, for ex:
If you only ask people who look friendly, you will only know what friendly people think!
If you went to the swimming pool and asked people "Can you swim?" you will get a
biased
answer ... maybe even 100% will say "Yes"
The surveys where people are asked to ring a number to vote are not very accurate, because only
certain types of people
actually ring up!
We’ll talk more about this later. Slide14
Make your questions Neutral
Your questions should also be neutral ... allowing the person to think
their own thoughts
about the question.
If I had the question
"Do you love nature?"
... that is a
bad question
because it is almost forcing the person to say "Yes, of course."
Try rewording it to be more
neutral
, for example:
Example: "How important is the natural environment to you?"
Not Important
Some Importance
Very ImportantSlide15
Types of Questions
1. Scale
How often do you complete your homework?
1- Always 2- Often 3- Sometimes 4- Rarely 5- Never
2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes your schoolwork?
Sloppy
Organized
Inconsistent
Neat
3. Open Ended
What word would you use to describe your schoolwork?Slide16
Demographic questions!Slide17
Tally up the data or the results….
Tally the Results
Now you have finished asking questions it is time to tally the results.
By "tally" I mean add up. This usually involves lots of paperwork and computer work (spreadsheets are useful!)
Example: For "favorite colors of my class" you can simply write tally marks like this (every fifth mark crosses the previous 4 marks, so you can easily see groups of 5):Slide18
The Results….
Look at your survey results for trends and patterns.
What conclusions can you draw from the survey results?
Write a conclusion, and include any tables or graphs that help you present your survey resultsSlide19
Ways to present your results
Tables
Sometimes, you can simply report the information in a table.
A table is a very simple way to show others the results. A table should have a title, so those looking at it understand what it shows:
Statistics
You can also summarize the results using statistics, such as
mean
or
standard deviation
Example: you have lots of information about how long it takes people to get to school but it may be simpler just to present a summary such as:
Shortest Journey: 3 minutes
Average Journey: 22 minutes
Longest Journey: 58 minutesSlide20
Graphs
Nothing makes a report look better than a nice graph or chart
There are many different types of graphs. Three of the most common are:
Line Graph
- Used to show information that is somehow connected (such as change over time)
Pie Chart
- Used most often to show survey data that is to be reported in percentages.
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People's Comments
If people have given their opinions or comments in the survey, you can present the more interesting ones:
Example: In response to the question "How can we best clean up the river?" we received these interesting replies:
"The government has a special fund for this"
"The local gardening group has seedlings you could plant"Slide22
Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/education/DesignSurvey.aspx?pf=true
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/survey-conducting.html