Purpose The purpose of this project is to assess your ability to: Collect data and display. Use Excel. Create and interpret Venn diagrams. Summarize and report findings.
Project 1-1 I have attached the survey link and Excel sheet. Due by Sunday
Purpose
The purpose of this project is to assess your ability to:
- Collect data and display.
- Use Excel.
- Create and interpret Venn diagrams.
- Summarize and report findings.
Overview
In this module, you will turn in the first part of Probability Project 1. This project consists of three parts.
- Project 1-1: Data Collection – Due in Module 2
- Project 1-2: Create Venn Diagrams – Due in Module 3
- Project 1-3: Final Report Submission – Due in Module 4
Venn diagrams can be a useful way to display the results of a survey with multiple questions. At a glance, one can get a general feel of the ways in which the experiences and/or knowledge of a group of people overlap. In this project, you will collect data in a survey and then use a Venn diagram to analyze the results.
Action Items
- Create an anonymous short survey as follows:
- Create three questions that can each be answered with either “Yes” or “No” only.
- Example questions:
- Do you have/live with a dog? [cat, pet, etc]
- Do you own your own home?
- Have you changed jobs within the last 3 years?
- Have you ever traveled to a country outside of the one in which you currently live?
- Do you speak more than one language?
- Do you belong to a gym/fitness club?
- Have you exercised 3 times in the past 7 days?
- Have you made an online purchase within the past 30 days?
- Within the past five years, have you attended a professional sporting event?
- Within the past five years, have you been on a cruise?
- Associate each question with a set identifier A, B, C
- Add one more question to capture a demographic characteristic that divides your responses into two sets, for example: male or female, under 25 or 25 and over, under 40 or 40 and over, under 60 or 60 and over, student or non-student, etc.
- Using the same survey for all respondents, collect data from at least 40 subjects.
- Please do not collect any self-identifying information (such as names and email addresses), as it is not necessary for this assignment.
- Responses may be collected electronically using a short email or social media post, through an online survey or data collection tool such as Microsoft forms, Responses may be collected electronically using a short email or social media post, through an online survey or data collection tool such as Microsoft Forms, Google Forms, or similar, via a paper form, or even verbally (interviews).
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- You may choose to offer an opt-out response for the demographic characteristic such as “prefer not to answer,” but you must collect a minimum of 10 responses in each of the two categories and a minimum of 40 total responses.
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- Subjects may include family, coworkers, relatives, friends (or your kids’ friends), classmates, teammates, random people you encounter, etc.
- Download the Excel template Download the Excel templateand record your responses. See the example below.
- Complete the summary table on the Excel template:
- Identify all possible combinations of responses for your survey
- The total number of responses for each combination
- Add a brief note describing the source of your data (i.e., who were your subjects) and how you collected your responses.
Module 3: 5-4-3-2-1 Reflection Assignment 2 Due Next Week
Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to:
· Organize and process the information you learned in this module’s readings.
· Reimagine material for future personal or social benefit.
Overview
Considering what you learned this module, you’ll write 5 categories of reflections about the information we covered.
Action Items
1. Consider what you learned in this unit and write the “5-4-3-2-1” response, outlined below:
o 5 bullets of what you learned to expect from students in your licensure area.
o 4 bullets of what you learned about your actions as a teacher in the classroom.
o 3 bullets of Disconnect, Disagreement or Confusion based on what you read.
o 2 Questions you have about the material.
o 1 Personal or Professional Connection you made to the material.
Module 3: Annotated Bibliography Assignment 3
Purpose
Briefly summarize the source and/or explain why it is important to a topic
Overview
Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for each source, you're forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead of just collecting information. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies allow you to see what has been done in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit.
Tasks
1. Write annotated bibliographies for three peer-reviewed journal articles
2. Read the Overview in Module 2 Preparation.
3. Read the annotated bibliography example Download annotated bibliography example.
4. Write the annotated bibliographies for 3 articles (some of them need to be quantitative, others can be qualitative) using a combined informative/evaluation style.
5. For each of the 3 bibliographies, include the following information:
o Bibliographic information of the source using the APA 7 style.
o Provide the source summary and analysis (1-2 paragraphs).
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§ What is the general research topic of the article?
§ What is the aim of the study?
§ What are the research methods (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed) used in this research?
§ What theory is described as a theoretical underpinning of the research?
§ What are the main arguments?
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· Be sure to list the research findings and suggestions for future research and future practice.
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o Evaluate the article (1 paragraph).
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§ Is it a useful source?
§ Is the information reliable?
§ Is the source biased or objective?
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o Reflect on the article (1 paragraph).
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§ How does it fit into your research?
§ How does it help you shape your argument?
§ How can you use this source in your research?
§ Has it changed how you think about the topic?
Module 3: Journal Article Critique Due Next Week Assignment 4
Purpose
· Evaluate academic research about educational leadership
· Relate research findings to the focus area of your program
Overview
In this assignment, you are to search a journal in the field of educational leadership and find an empirical research article that is of interest to you, then identify the major parts of the article.
Some of the sources that can help you identify a potential article are listed below:
1. The LibGuideLinks to an external site. contains the list of journals in educational leadership.
2. Google ScholarLinks to an external site. is a great tool for starting your search.
Google Scholar: the unlimited guideLinks to an external site. provides guidelines how to use Google Scholar effectively and efficiently.
3. Contact the library using their chat window and ask for help with locating relevant databases, journals, and other sources.
Tasks
1. Search a journal in the field of educational leadership and find an empirical research article that is of interest to you, then identify the major parts of the article.
2. Reflect upon the results presented and their implication in relation to the focus area of your program.
3. Follow the guiding questions:
A. What is the type of research (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods)?
o Note: If you have chosen a mixed methods research, you should analyze qualitative and quantitative strands separately.
B. Is there a statement of the problem in the Introduction?
C. Is the educational significance of the problem discussed in the Introduction?
D. Is the review of the related literature comprehensive?
E. Are all cited refences relevant to the problem under investigation?
F. What is (are) the research question(s) (or hypothesis)? (hypotheses apply to quantitative research only)
G. Describe the sample used in this study.
H. How was the data analyzed?
I. What is (are) the major finding(s)?