"Studies Show That..."
Do You Read The Signs at the Airport?
Everyday, we see and use signs to guide us places, but do we actually know the reason why they are there? In this study, we wanted to find out how many people read the signs in an airport. We chose to do an observational study for this. We sat in crowded areas of the airport such as the baggage claim and main concourse to see how many people take a look at the signs located throughout the airport. Our sample group was completely randomized. We also stopped some people at random to ask some questions about the signage in the airport. After collecting quite a bit of data, we came to the conclusion that people do tend to look at the signs posted throughout the airport to help them to their next destinations.
Here is a link to our Study Report:
https://docs.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/document/d/1LmTbeieTHAbvZ2TaAVbgigcPZAJoJ91Q1dT4U_5bwew/edit
Project Description:
Students will design a psychological experiment or observation that investigates the question: “What helps students become better learners?” They will understand the Statistical Problem-Solving Process as well as concepts of statistical bias, random sampling and misleading statistics, distribution, center, spread, statistical analysis and by coming up with their own question/hypothesis, designing the experiment, collecting and aggregating data, analyzing and graphing their data, and making inferences and conclusions on their data.
Everyday, we see and use signs to guide us places, but do we actually know the reason why they are there? In this study, we wanted to find out how many people read the signs in an airport. We chose to do an observational study for this. We sat in crowded areas of the airport such as the baggage claim and main concourse to see how many people take a look at the signs located throughout the airport. Our sample group was completely randomized. We also stopped some people at random to ask some questions about the signage in the airport. After collecting quite a bit of data, we came to the conclusion that people do tend to look at the signs posted throughout the airport to help them to their next destinations.
Here is a link to our Study Report:
https://docs.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/document/d/1LmTbeieTHAbvZ2TaAVbgigcPZAJoJ91Q1dT4U_5bwew/edit
Project Description:
Students will design a psychological experiment or observation that investigates the question: “What helps students become better learners?” They will understand the Statistical Problem-Solving Process as well as concepts of statistical bias, random sampling and misleading statistics, distribution, center, spread, statistical analysis and by coming up with their own question/hypothesis, designing the experiment, collecting and aggregating data, analyzing and graphing their data, and making inferences and conclusions on their data.
Project Reflection:
- What Challenges Did You Face Along the Way? One of our biggest challenges was the fact that everything we were doing was outside of school. All the other groups were doing their studies inside of school and ours was not. Because of this, it was hard to get everyone in the group to go to the airport and perform our study. Also, we did not know what the people were going to be like while giving our study. We found it tough to walk up to people and ask them questions about their travel experiences. A lot of people do not like to be bothered while they are travelling.
- How Did You Know You Were Done With Your Final Product? For our project, we collected quite a bit of data. It was obvious that our original survey question was answered after the first time of observing. Because of this, we knew that the only thing we had our product. We had left ourselves plenty of time to ensure we had an amazing final report that we could share with our peers.
- What was the role of math in the process or product of this project? I would say that math played a larger role in the product of this project and a smaller role in the process of this project. We had to spend quite a bit of time examining our data and making sure it was clear for our understanding as well as our peers understanding. We also wanted to make sure we were analyzing our data correctly and not making any mistakes. As a group, the last thing we wanted to to was give wrong information about our study results.
Critique in this project
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Our final study report went through many rounds of critiques. Above, you will find an example of our "Methods" section that has been critiqued.