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The US recently conducted its decennial
census.
In the spirit of this event, you are going to conduct a mini-census of
your class. You will not be interested in race or affluence or education
or any of the other topics covered by the regular census. No, your task
will be to find out a little more 'important' information about your peers.
You will be randomly divided up into 6
groups. Each group will be assigned a topic -
Clothing (type, style, brand, etc)
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Spare time (how do you spend it etc)
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Music (type, group, etc)
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Food (favorites/least favorite, resturants, etc)
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Career (parents', planned job, etc)
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Vacation (location, activities, etc)
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 The
first step is to devise a survey
You should spend 10-15 minutes brainstorming
about the questions, choices, and information you want to find out about
your topic
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Brainstorming is just a rapid-fire collection
of ideas
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Nothing is 'right' or 'wrong' at this point.
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Collect everyone's ideas and sort/organize
later
Organize your topics into at least
10
multiple choice questions
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Try to include the answers that you think
will be most popular for each
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Label each choice "A, B, C, D" etc...
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Do NOT include an 'other' category:
make sure your answers will encompass everyone's views.
Next
you need to type up the survey
The
following day, the class will take the questionnaires.
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Each person will fill out 5 (you don't have
to take your own)
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You'll do these in your groups
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Each group should receive their completed
surveys by the end of the period
Then
your job will be to tabulate the results.
These
should then be entered into an Excel workbook.
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The formatting and setup must be determined
by the groups
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Keep in mind that you will be calculating
sums, percentages, and averages from this data
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More information about the specific calculating
requirements will be forthcoming
When
you have completed that, develop a series of charts
and graphs that illustrate your findings
Finally,
present your conclusions to the class in a Power
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