Performance 4 (20%) - Analysis of Survey Results

Performance 4 (20%) - Analysis of Survey Results

Introduction: For your Performance 4 you will complete a research project to discover the answer to this question:

• How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected my classmates?

To do this, you work with your group members to create a survey for your other classmates to collect data. Then you will analyze your data and share your results and conclusions with the class. Click the image below to review the rubric for this performance.

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Follow the instructions in the tasks below to get started.

Task 1: What do we want to learn about? - As the researchers in this task, you need to decide what kind of data you want to collect and analyze. The main topic is how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in this course. To do this, you will focus on one specific aspect in order to create your survey. Consider the subtopics below and decide as a group which one you want to investigate.

• Changes in daily routine
• Changes in lifestyle
• Changes in health
• Changes in diet
• Changes in work
• Changes in education
• Changes in relationships
• Changes in family dynamics
• Changes in priorities
• Changes in mood and emotions
• Attitudes about the situation
• Strategies to adapt to the situation
• Other specific aspect (ask your teacher)

Task 2: How can we collect information about this? - Now that you have your research topic, you need to create your survey using Google Forms. This tool allows you to create many different kinds of questions. Look at the examples below. What kinds of questions do you think will give you the best data to analyze?

Agree or Disagree

Multiple Choice

Scale

Task 3: Create Your Survey - To create your survey using Google Forms you need a Gmail account. Only one member of your group needs to have a Gmail account. If nobody has one, you can create a new account just for this exercise. Just don't forget your password! Follow these steps.

• Go to Gmail and open your drive.

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• Click NEW or NUEVO and open Google Forms

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• Click on the three dots and add collaborators. Here you can add the email addresses of your group members so everyone has access to edit the survey. Also, be sure to add your teacher's email address!

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• After you finished creating your survey, click SEND or ENVIAR and copy the link. Send the link to your teacher.

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Task 4: Analyze Your Results - The teacher will post the links to all of the surveys in the Entorno Virtual. When everyone has responded to your survey, you will need to analyze the results. 

• Click RESPONSES or RESPUESTAS.

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• Google Forms automatically generates graphics and percentages for you based on the data. You can take screenshots of these graphics to include in your presentation. 

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When you look at the results of the survey ask yourselves the following questions:

• What do these results tell us?
• What generalizations can we make?
• What contradictions do we notice?
• What information did we expect to find? What did we actually find?
• Is anything surprising?
• What do we want our class to know about these results?

Task 5: Prepare Your Presentation - Now you are ready to present your findings to the class. Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following information.

• Name of your research project
• What is your topic of study and why did you choose it?
• What questions did you ask? Why did you think these questions will help you collect the data you need?
• What were the results? Share the graphics and the analysis that you made in Task 4.
• What are your conclusions and recommendations?

Task 6: Individual Writing - Now you have finished your research and group presentation. For the Entorno Virtual time, you will write a paragraph summarizing your investigation. Use this model to write your paragraph.

"The name of our research project was... In this project we decided to study... because... We wanted to discover... The questions that we asked were... The total number of students that responded to our survey was... For question 1, we found that ....% of respondents chose... and ...% chose.... These results made us feel... because... For question 2 we discovered that .... For question 3 ... Based on these results, we can make the following generalizations. First of all, ... because... Also, we found that ...and for that reason.... Finally, we can say... because... We think it is important to do additional research about ... because ..."