Description
Week 3 Assignment: Lab
Week | Assignments | Due Date |
Week 3 | Graded Discussion | Suggested Due Date—
Initial Post: Wednesday of Week 3
Due Date— Responses: Sunday of Week 3 [Have two posts on two different days] |
Knewton Homework Assignments
Measures of Central Tendency (Section 2.3) Understanding Measures of Central Tendency (Section 2.3 & 2.4) Distribution Shape (Section 2.6) Standard Deviation (Section 2.7) Quartiles and Box Plots (Section 2.2) |
Sunday of Week 3 | |
Lab #1—Displaying Data | Sunday of Week 3 |
Prompt
Scenario/Summary
This week’s lab highlights the use of graphics, distributions, and tables to summarize and interpret data.
Deliverables
The deliverable is a Word document with your answers to the questions posed below based on the article you find.
Required Software
- Microsoft Word
- Internet access to read articles
Steps to Complete Week 3 Lab
Part 1:
Step 1: Your instructor will provide you with a scholarly article. The article will contain at least one graph and/or table. Summarize the article.
Part 2:
Title your paper: “Review of [Name of Article]”
State the Author:
Summarize the article in one paragraph:
Post a screen shot of a frequency table and/or graph from the article
Example:
Frequency Distribution OR Graph
Step 4: Answer the following questions about your table or graph.
- What type of study is used in the article (quantitative or qualitative)? Explain how you came to that conclusion.
- What type of graph or table did you choose for your lab (bar graph, histogram, stem & leaf plot, etc.)? What characteristics make it this type (you should bring in material that you learned in the course)?
- Describe the data displayed in your frequency distribution or graph (consider class size, class width, total frequency, list of frequencies, class consistency, explanatory variables, response variables, shapes of distributions, etc.)
- Draw a conclusion about the data from the graph or frequency distribution in context of the article.
- How else might this data have been displayed? Discuss pros and cons of 2 other presentation options, such as tables or different graphical displays. Why don’t you think those two graphs were not used in this article?
- Give the full APA reference of the article you are using for this lab.
Step 5: Be sure your name is on the Word document, save it, and then submit it under “Assignments” and “Week 3: Lab”.
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