The final project is to analyze a claim based on data collected in an opinion poll.
Proposal (Due Thursday, May 16)
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Together as a team of four or five, choose a theme for your study. In the past, themes have included student cars, seniors’ college plans, and teachers and rules enforcement.
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Each member of the team selects a question to answer or a claim to test. Past questions include “Are boys’ cars are older than girls’ cars”, and “Is there a correlation between GPA and absences?” Your question can be one from one of the topics we have covered this semester:
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Each student should also classify his or her claim (e.g., Two-sample hypothesis).
- Proposals will be submitted to this Google form by EoD on Thursday. Late proposals will lose points; early proposals will gain points
Poll Planning (Due Friday, May 24th)
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The team creates an opinion poll on Google Docs form that solicits the data for each member’s analysis. The poll should be accessible to all team members and the teacher.
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The team selects a sampling strategy (e.g., cluster sample) and plans the actual sample.
Poll Execution (Due Friday, June 7th)
Analysis (Completed by June 19)
Once the data is entered into Google form, it is available in a Google spreadsheet. The analysis of the claim is a Prezi or PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:
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A graph that depicts the data that will be used to test the claim,
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The claim and the hypothesis,
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The calculations used to test the hypothesis,
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If the student does a mean or proportion hypothesis, the analysis should include the confidence interval.
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If the student does a correlation, the analysis should indicate whether the correlation is significant and the regression equation.
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The conclusion in context.
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Analysis wrap-up, which should include:
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A review of the analysis including possible improvements, and
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A discussion as to why the claim is or is not true
The analysis should table about three to four days
Presentation (Final Exam Period)
Non-exempt students will present their analysis during the final exam period.
Grade
Non-exempt students’ final grade will be based on the project according to the rubric. Exempt students’ fourth marking period grade will include the project.
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