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EDUC W200 Week 9
DATA COLLECTION TASKS
EDUC W200 Week 9
WHERE DOES THE INFO COME FROM?• Data usually comes from two sources:
o Collecting your own original data• Surveys, questionnaires, interviews, cell phone polls, etc• Sensor-based data: heart-rate monitors, motion
detectors, temperature sensors.
o Finding existing data• Existing databases online• Searching websites for information and compile it• Existing books, poems, histories, newspapers, articles,
etc
EDUC W200 Week 9
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS?
• Surveying each other about our heights, weights, and gender, looking for trends (math/statistics)
• Collecting quotes about a subject (language arts)
• Taking measurements of three different plants over the course of a month (science)
• Looking up the parties of presidential election winners and recording them for each election year (social studies)
EDUC W200 Week 9
EXAMPLES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS
o Comparing multiple poems, and recording their meter/structure (English)• Looking for repeated rhythmic
patternso Data collection during physical
exertion (Health/Physical Education)• Heart rate monitors or pedometers
o Recording various regular verbs and their gerund form (Foreign language)• Looking for patterns in the form
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