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Instructors' Guide for Facilitating
Activity
Activity College_Life: Are you satisfied
with your university?
Required Equipment
• Computers for each student to
conduct the online data collection
• A pass code for this activity (If you do not have this, please
register
for a pass
code.)
Activity
This activity is designed to introduce categorical data,
two-way table and association. It consists of student
backgrounds, student opinions and experiences of their
campus life. It can be used to design a semester long
project. Basic as well as more advanced techniques can
be applied depending on the problems of interest.
Suggested Approach and Some Tips for
Facilitating This Activity
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Describe
this activity as a scenario.
Are you satisfied with your university? What
facility have you used most often in your university?
How do you balance between partying and studying?
Do you want to know how different your university is
from others, based on student opinions and experiences?
This campus life survey will provide some insight to
answering some of those questions.
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Decide to
have your class:
- participate in this campus survey
(go to step 3)
OR
- use the data collected by other
classes (go to step 4)
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Engage
students in the data measurement and data collection
stage.
- Ask students if they are interested
in finding out other student opinions and experiences
about this university and comparing with other
universities.
- Stress that the survey is anonymous
and will be used for teaching and learning statistic
concepts only. It is important to answer the
survey questions honestly and to their best knowledge.
- Direct students to the "Add Data"
page of this activity.
-Click on "Data Entry", select the activity
College_Life. Click on "Add Data" to conduct the
survey.
A pass code for this activity must be provided to
students. If you do not have a pass code you
must register for this activity.
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Direct
students to the "Data Download" page.
- If you are on the activity main
page, click on "Select Data" to download the data
OR
- Click on "Data Download", select
Activity College_Life, then click on "Select Data" to
download the data.
- You may download the entire data or
a subset of the data. Ask students to follow
your instructions.
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Direct
students to analyze the data.
You should have chosen what statistical tool your class
will be using for analyzing the data.
• You may use the software at your local computer lab.
• You may use the online software, "Crunch_It"
at http://www.statcrunch.com/.
For the first time
users you need to sign on to the
site. Please stress
that
students need to remember their
own ID and
password. Direct
students to
input
the data and analyze
the data.
Be more
focused on what
tools are to be
used
for analyzing
this
distance data based on
the purpose of this activity.
Suggested Questions for Classroom Activities
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Facilitate
the discussion of the results.
• Facilitating the discussion of the results should
focus on the related context,
not just the numbers
themselves.
• The discussion should stress the relationship between
different graphical
presentations and
numerical measurements in different real world
contexts,
not just this
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Assessment:
Suggested Questions for Classroom Activities
Suggested Questions for Homework and Projects |
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