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Data Collection in Action

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Data Collection in Action

Students collecting data with clipboards and surveys

🔍 Part 1: Planning Your Data Collection

1. What is your investigative question?
2. What type of data collection method will you use?

Survey/questionnaire

Experiment

Observation

Other: _______________

3. Who is your group of interest (who will you collect data from)?
4. What tools or equipment will you need? (Check all that apply)

Clipboard and pencil

Stopwatch/timer

Measuring tape/ruler

Scales

Tablet/laptop

Other: _______________

📊 Part 2: Recording Your Data Collection

5. Document the context of your data collection:

When: Date and time: ____________________

Where: Location: ____________________

How many: Number of people/items: ____________________

How: Method used: ____________________

6. Create a simple data table for your results:
7. What errors or problems did you encounter during data collection?
8. How did you check for errors in your data?

Asked clarifying questions

Double-checked measurements

Repeated trials

Reviewed answers with respondents

Other: _______________

🤔 Part 3: Reflection

9. What was the most challenging part of collecting your data?
10. If you could collect this data again, what would you do differently?
11. Circle the statistical vocabulary words you used today:

primary datavariablegroup of interestsurveyexperimenterror checking

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