Survey

Created by:

Priscilla Burbank-Schmitt, Brookline High School
Peter Kaczmar, Lower Merion High School
Sam Tumolo, Cincinnati Country Day School


Frank Wattenberg, USMA


This site will gather information from several different schools for comparison and statistical analysis.

You will be asked to read a passage and respond to several questions. You are not asked for your name in order to preserve your identity.

At the end of the survey you will receive an acknowledgment of your participation. You can print this response and provide it to your instructor if necessary.

 

Read the Paragraph        View Survey Results        Activities

 

 

Please read the following passage:

SENATE ADDS SENATOR HUTCHISON'S SINGLE SEX EDUCATION AMENDMENT
Legislation will provide funding for single sex education options in public schools


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate today unanimously approved an amendment introduced by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to permit creativity grants to include single sex education programs in public schools and classrooms.


"This legislation will give public schools the opportunity to provide the same options now available in private and parochial schools. It will give more choices to parents who believe that their children would do better in a single-sex education environment," said Senator Hutchison.


"I want every child in this country to be given the chance to reach his or her full potential," said Senator Hutchison. "If a child or parent believes that there is a better chance of success in a single-sex classroom, then public schools should have the ability to provide options to fit a child's needs. This amendment will make those options possible."

 

Answer the following questions:

1. I support the view(s) expressed above.

     Strongly Agree      Agree      Disagree      Strongly Disagree

 

2. Generally I see myself as:

     Conservative      Moderate      Liberal

 

3. Gender:

     Male      Female

 

4. School :

 

5. Grade level:

     9th      10th      11th      12th      college

 

6. Number of hours spent per week on schoolwork (outside of class):

     hours (enter a real number)

 

7. Number of hours per week spent working at a job:

     hours (enter a real number)

 

8. Number of siblings:

     siblings (enter integer values)

 

 

9. Enter your math and verbal SAT scores:

Math  

Verbal

 

10. I would like to attend a single sex school.

     Yes      No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for participating in this survey.

You are student number___________to visit this site.

 

View Survey Results                     Activities

 

View Survey Results

Make your choices below to select the information you wish to analyze.

 

Variables

Categorical

Quantitative

Select the surveys you would like included in your report.

 

Entire Population

or

Select from below the subpopulations you wish to see.

 

 

Level of Agreement:

All     Strongly Agree     Agree      Disagree     Strongly Disagree

 

Political Disposition:

All      Conservative      Moderate      Liberal

 

Gender

All      Male      Female

 

School:

All      Brookline High School      Cincinnati Country Day School      Lower Merion High School      USMA

 

Grade Level:

All      9th      10th      11th      12th      College

 

Number of hours per week spent on schoolwork (range [0, 100]):

All     

  Between and  (inclusive)

 

Number of hours per week spent working at a job(range [0, 50]):

All      

Between  and  (inclusive)

 

Number of siblings (range [0, 8]):

All     

  Between and  (inclusive)

 

SAT scores (range [200, 800]):

Math

All     

  Between and  (inclusive)

 

Verbal

All     

  Between and  (inclusive)

 

 

Desire to attend a single sex school

All      Yes      No

 

Report Format

Select one of the five report options below.

You may wish to download the results into your calculator, statistical software or spreadsheet.

 

Listing of Surveys

One Variable Summary - Categorical

One Variable Summary - Quantitative

Two-way Table

Scatterplot

 

 

1. Listing of selected surveys.

Group Reports by one of the following:

School

Level of agreement

Political disposition

Gender

Grade level

Desire to attend single sex school

 

 

2. One variable summary  -   Categorical

  (Since these variables are categorical, count data will be shown.)

 

School

Level of Agreement

Political Disposition

Gender

Grade Level

Desire to Attend Single Sex School

 

3. One variable summary - Quantitative

 (This data will be presented in a histogram and frequency table, you will need to specify a bin width.
   A five-number summary, mean, and standard deviation will also be provided.)

Number of hours per week spent on schoolwork

Specify bin width

Number of hours spent working at a job

Specify bin width

Number of siblings

Specify bin width

Math SAT scores

Specify bin width

Verbal SAT scores

Specify bin width

 

 

 

4. Two Way Table - Check one box from each column.

 (Since these variables are categorical, count data will be shown.)

Row Variable
Column Variable
School School
Level of agreement Level of agreement
Political disposition Political disposition
Gender Gender
Grade level Grade
Desire to attend single sex school Desire to attend single sex school

 

 

 

5. Two variable scatterplot - check one box from each column.

x - axis 
   
y - axis

Number of hours per week spent on schoolwork            

Number of hours per week spent on schoolwork            

Number of hours spent working at a job Number of hours spent working at a job
Number of siblings Number of siblings
Math SAT scores Math SAT scores
Verbal SAT scores Verbal SAT scores

 

 

 

 

Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity 1

 

      Purpose: To better understand what a confidence interval is.

1. Using the data from the survey, determine the proportion of students at USMA who indicated that they might like to attend a single sex school. This is a  small sample of the students at USMA. What can you say about the beliefs of the entire student body at USMA? Calculate a 95% confidence interval for this data. Explain your results.

2. Run the following applet. You need to enter a value for , theta, (population proportion), n (sample size), the number of intervals and the confidence level. Then, you click the recalculate button.

Click here for the applet.

3. Explain what a confidence interval is using the green and red lines as part of your explanation.

4. Choose a variable from the survey that interests you. For each of the schools, calculate a 95% Confidence Interval for that variable.

5. Plot the confidence intervals on the same horizontal axis. What conclusions can you draw?

 

 

Activity 2

 

Question: Is the school that you attend independent of the different views on Single Sex Education?

1. Decide on the methods that you will use to gather the information from the database.
    Which report format should you select?


2. Download this information into your statistical software or graphing calculator.


3. Perform the appropriate analysis on the data. Justify the statistical test that you have chosen.


4. Write a paragraph to explain your results.


5. Repeat the above analysis on two different variables of your choice.

 

 

Activity 3

 

1. Construct side-by-side boxplots for the number of hours spent on schoolwork for each of the four schools.
    Write a paragraph describing your impressions.


2. Repeat #1 for math SAT scores.

 

 

Activity 4

 


1. For each of the four schools determine how the number of hours spent on schoolwork is related to the math SAT scores.
    Write an essay comparing and contrasting the four schools. Incorporate a complete analysis.
    Be sure to explain all your work .

2. Now look at the data in aggregate. What changes do you see? What causes these changes?