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What is it This semester weve 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 ID: 429502

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Slide1

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

. Slide3
Slide4

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.

 Slide21

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