What better way to study survey design than to design your own survey! Bring a versatile data analysis project to your AP Statistics class, and encourage them to apply the practices from their instructions to a real-world survey project.

Concepts

data collection, data analysis, mean, standard deviation, five-number summaries, box and whisker plots, histograms, stem and leaf plots, statistics

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as a culminating project for a data collection and analysis unit
• Assign the project as a group activity, and provide a list of potential populations to analyze
• Combine with social studies or sociology to analyze a specific topic or concept

Classroom Considerations

• Meant to be a long-term project
• Provides specific dates

Pros

• Directions are outlined well and expectations are clear
• Provides a grading outline for straightforward assessment
• Sets reasonable expectations and deadlines for different stages of the project
• Does not detail a specific topic to research, making the project as flexible as you need it to be

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSS-ID.A.4 HSS-IC.B.3