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Successful Performance
Successful application of your learning looks like this
As you begin to apply what you’ve learned, you should have a good idea of what success looks like.
A SUCCESSFUL
PERFORMANCE
When I am presented with the opportunity for collecting data, I...
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Decide on which data generation process I should select
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Develop or select appropriate tools to obtain the data
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Collect, validate, and store the data using appropriate technology
D
emonstrate Your Understanding
Apply it and show you know in context!
1. Find an example of a survey, taken recently (in the last couple of weeks). Use the Technique to
analyze that process of surveying.
2. From someone’s current or recent lab course, take and analyze the data generation and collection
process used in a completed lab activity.
3. Try to find an observation tool in use. This might be an inventory form, a class visitation form, a
packing list, etc. Explore what is and isn’t included on the form. Does the form collect data that isn’t
needed and/or does it fail to collect data that is potentially needed? Explain.
4. Find a computer application that collects data that you use or have access to. Figure out what data
was collected during that transaction and decide if effective decisions were made on data actually
collected, data that was not collected, and data that should never have been collected.
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ardest Problem
How hard
can
it be? Can you still use what you’ve learned?
Based on the Models, the Methodologies, and the Demonstrate Your Understanding (DYU) problems in
this activity, create the
hardest
problem you can. Start with the hardest DYU problem in this experience
and by contrasting and comparing it with the other DYU problems, play “What if” with the different
conditions and parameters in the various problems.
Can you still solve the problem? If so, solve it. If not, explain why not.
What are the conditions and parameters that make a problem involving data generation a difficult
problem to solve?
T
roubleshooting
Find the error and correct it!
In higher education, a college receives accreditation when it demonstrates that each academic program
produces results that exceed the college’s stated learning outcomes. The college asked Simon’s department
for evidence that the department meets the accrediting expectations. Simon quickly started collecting
whatever data he could that showed any results of learning. The data includes letters from previous
students, syllabi from courses, and examples of student work (papers, tests, and project reports). The
department ultimately produced five notebooks of sample student work collected over the past two
years, a collection of two years worth of syllabi for half the courses offered, and statistical data on the