Party Planning
“The oldest person was 16 and the youngest was 12. The average age was 13.” — student, NCEA Level 1, Achievement Standard
“The graph shows that Toyotas were the most popular.” — student, NCEA Level 2, Unit Standard.
Here are two examples of complete conclusions I have come across and these are by no means unique. Conclusion writing is perhaps the weakest part of a student’s PPDAC cycle.
This skill builder focuses on looking at data and writing conclusions. It is aimed at students of any level with little or no experience at writing a statistical conclusion.
This activity should get them on the way to writing more meaningful conclusions. While this activity is a skill builder and it lacks much of the background to the data, it is a great starting point to assist in conclusion writing for your students.
Skills Based Activity: Tell it like it is
Further documents to be added as they become available. These will be updated as necessary.
Sample Data
Two already prepared and analysed samples are available in the Datasheets for Tell it like it is
. Here they are again for convenience:
For more daring and advanced classes, we invite you to retrieve your own random sample using the CensusAtSchool New Zealand 2005 random sampler.
