Introduce your research, including what you are studying and provide a rationale for studying it.
We are researching whether or not students, this year were happy with their electives given to them, or not, as well as how many people they would prefer in their typical classroom. Both of these topics are important due to the fact that, if the students do not get given electives that they are interested in or passionate about it will most likely lead them to securing a bad future for themselves such as them not being able to get a good job. Whereas the second numerical questioning is slightly less relevant although it does show the students perspective on whether they like higher or lower amounts of students in their class
Comment on the validity and reliability of the research methods used in this project.
Biases may be found for the numerical question: In your opinion, what would be the ideal class size for Maths, English, Science or Humanities? This may be due to the fact that other people may be more “talkative” or communicative than others meaning that the more talkative people would quite obviously choose to have a higher amount of people in their class. As well as this the demographic data may affect the categorical questions depending on their response for what pathway they are headed towards in the future. If they were headed towards the more common pathway, it would be likelier that the people would care less or be happier about what electives they receive.
Numerical Data & Graph
This graph shows the numerical data presented in the form of a box and whisker plot. The data used in this graph is mentioned below, containing the minimum data, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and the maximum data. The box and whisker plot shows the Minimum value, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum value of the data collected from the survey. The frequency shows the recurrence of the preferred class size that has been selected.
Minimum Data: 3
Lower Quartile: 13
Median: 18
Upper Quartile: 23
Maximum: 38
Categorical Data & Graph
These graphs show the categorical data collected by the year 9 survey for how happy the students were with their elective choices that they were given this year. We have included a two separate pie charts, one with percentages and the other with numbers, a frequency table, and a histogram. The pie graphs show the data collected through se
