Data Cycle Questions

Data Cycle Questions

By John Turnbull

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a research question that requires the collection of data that can be displayed in a histogram?

• How many people voted for each candidate in an elections?

• What is your favorite meal for dinner? (pasta, pizza, chicken, salad)

• How much time is spent gaming each night?

• What color of car is most frequently sold at a dealership?

Multiple Choice

What is the second step in the data cycle?

• Formulate questions to be explored with data.

• Analyze data and communicate results.

• organize and represent data.

• Collect or acquire data.

The Data Cylce

Multiple Choice

Which methods of data collection could be used to determine how much sleep students get a night at our middle school?

• Experiment

• Surveys

• Measurement

• Observations

Poll

 

Jennie conducted a survey of her classmates to answer the following question: “How old is the average user on a social media platform?”

Could this data be represented in a histogram?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Poll

Mrs. Williams collected the shoe sizes of her students in her classes, and she wants to display the data in a histogram.

Could she use this data to construct a histogram?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Multiple Choice

A middle school student wants to survey students to discover the following: “How much time does the average Virginia middle school student spend looking at social media? Who would the student survey?

• Students in eighth grade.

• Students in all three grade levels of middle school.

• Students that are in ninth grade.

• Students that are in technology class.

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to have a random sample for data collection?

• A.    Random sampling can be used to ensure that the sample is representative of the population and to avoid bias.

• Random sampling is done to ensure that the data set is kept small.

• A.    Random sampling ensures that the researcher gets his opinion across.

• Random sampling ensures that multiple data sets can be used.