Freshman+Activity+with+Gallop+Poll

Presentation PowerPoint about getting freshman oriented to Undergraduate research - to faculty at Brandywine

The following are the activities that I adapted from another faculty member's activity with Freshman to help them think about data collection and uses.

Note the link on the Gallop Guidelines for obtaining Highlights of the 2010 PDK Gallop Poll that students had to read completely, but that small groups each took one of the sections when conducting their own surveys.

The public/anyone can download those Highlights, but due to copyright laws, I can not post that document on this Wiki.

I also created an adapted PowerPoint Presentation that I gave in class to explain the survey and the results:

The Guidelines for how to do the activity:

Students needed a sample and I included this with the Grading Rubric:

The following is a team of two Fa10 students' final paper. This team, by far, produced the best graphs/charts so they could show off their talents on this aspect of the project, but other parts showed emerging skills. Overall, though, I was very proud of this team's work.

FYI, these students excel more on projects than on quizzes/ exams and I vary the types of assessments in this course just for that reason.