how do the freshmen feel?
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How do the Freshmen Feel?. A survey conducted by Caitlin Park and Eli Harris. The Purpose. The purpose of our survey was to find out how the freshmen feel about the new graduation requirements for their grade . The Population. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
How do the Freshmen
Feel?A survey conducted by
Caitlin Park and Eli Harris
The Purpose
The purpose of our survey was to find
out how the freshmen feel about the new
graduation requirements for
their grade.
The PopulationThe population for our survey were the freshmen of
Juab High School.
The BiasWe chose to use leading
questions to lead the student being surveyed to give a
specific answer to the final question. Using this bias, we
were able to create two biased surveys; one survey in favor of
the new graduation requirements and one against
them.
Survey InstrumentsBiased For Biased Against
Unbiased
Sampling Procedure
We got a list of all the freshman, assigned each
student a number between 001-177, used the
calculator to randomly select 15 students for each survey (skipping repeated numbers). We then took a
copy of the assigned survey to each student and
asked them to fill it out.
Non-ResponseSome of the issues we had with non-response were people that weren’t able to find and one person was no longer attending this school. We had two students from the unbiased survey, one from the biased in favor survey, and one from the biased against survey.
The ResultsMale Surveys Female Surveys
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Results (continued)
All Surveys
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7%12%
17%
7%
56%
Conclusion & Analysis
The majority of freshman don’t care that they have increased graduation requirements. About 85% of freshman don’t care or like their new graduation requirements. Only about 15% of the freshman dislike the fact that they have different graduation requirements. Our bias didn’t work as we expected it to, but it could be due to the fact that the freshmen truly feel neutral on the subject.
Do it Again?
If we were to conduct this survey again we would do cluster sampling to make collecting the data easier.
We would also make the scale from 1 to 4 so that there is no neutral answer.
We would include more leading questions to obtain a better bias.