Lesson Structure and Evaluation

Lesson structure:

1. Goals:

• Collect and analyze information to make decision about what food items to purchase
• Decide which descriptive statistics to use to report (and display) preference items
• Construct a statistics-based presentation individually and as members of a team to communicate the results of the survey and to justify the decisions taken.

2. Materials:

• Internet access
• E-mail access
• Surveys
• Paper to keep truck of the results

3. Suggested timeline:

• Discussion of the problem. Decision making process 1st Day
• Collect data and analyze them 2nd and 3rd Days
• Construct a statistics-based presentation 4th and 5th Days

4. Evaluation:

• Ongoing through the problems suggested on the homepage
• Discuss the results with your group. Review the procedures you followed
• Write a brief report how you obtained the data, analyzed it and decided which statistics to use to report and display preferences items
• Prepare html document, including response form
• Be able to discuss solutions to some of the "Sample questions"