Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Week 4 - Introduction to statistics and data collection.

 CLASS OBJECTIVE

Know the basic elements of statistics, focusing on the most common data collection methods to perform data analysis effectively.

INTRODUCTION

As a person, students or professionals who are part of an educational community and who carry out the teaching-learning process every day we generate a lot of information, sometimes written, sometimes oral, and in the last year we created a lot of digital or electronic information . 


In the class read, observe, ask and write.




DATA COLLECTION (Reflection work)


Answer the next questions (Homework 2) with at least 20 words each. If you can´t search on the Internet, ask your friend to help you with the answers.


How do you imagine a Data Collection process in an investigation? 

What would you do to collect information? 

In your opinion, What are Data Collections for?

How is all the collected data analyzed?

Have you ever had to answer a Survey?


Let's review the answers you have.


STATISTICS

Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data in order to make more effective decisions.

Statistics are very useful not only to collect and describe data, but also to interpret the information obtained, which can be used to demonstrate the evolution of a phenomenon over time.


DATA COLLECTION METHODS

They are the strategies and instruments with which the information and data that will be analyzed are obtained.


Observation

The person or team in charge of data collection is the one who observes, as its name indicates, the research subjects.


Interview

In an interview there is a personal contact with those who have information, they are asked directly.

Questionnaire

As in an interview, the information is obtained directly from people involved in the investigation, but through printed or other resources, such as electronic ones. This is where the Internet Forms are applied.




GOOGLE FORMS

It is one of the many services included in a Google account, which allows us to collect information, via the Internet, through questionnaires.

In the current situation, this service will help us to collect data without coming into contact with other people.

The design of questionnaires in Google Forms offers us different types of questions, some open and others closed, as well as audiovisual resources, such as images and videos on YouTube.


What do you want to know about your group? Do they like the same as you? Do others think or think the same as you? What does the community need to know?


We will use Google Forms to collect information and will organize and analyze it statistically.