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EDUC W200 Week 9 DATA COLLECTION TASKS

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Page 1: Data collection tasks

EDUC W200 Week 9

DATA COLLECTION TASKS

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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

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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)

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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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