Methods of Collecting Data

Steven observed students entering a classroom for class and recorded whether the first half of the students who arrived for class chose to sit in the front half of the room.

What data collection method was used?

• Observational Study

• Experiment

• Survey

• Simulation

The number of pairs of shoes owned by students in your class.

Which of the three methods of collection would you use to collect this data?

• Experiment

• Observation

• Survey

Which method of collection would you use to collect the following data:

the number of pairs of glasses owned by students in your class.

• Observation

• Survey

• Experiment

• yes

Answer the question pictured.

• 4 students in the hallway

• All students in the marching band

• 50 12th graders at random

• 100 students at random during lunch

Which method of collection would you use to collect the following data:

How many students in your school drive a bicycle to get to school?

• Experiment

• Survey

• Observation

• Maybe

Ms. Foy wants to know the percentage of juniors that will take two math classes their senior year. She asks the first 30 juniors she saw throughout the day.

• Self-Selected

• Convenience

• Simple Random (SRS)

• Stratified Random

• Systematic

Example 3: A survey of students at a school is conducted by asking 30 students randomly selected through a lottery system in an all-school assembly whether they walk, drive, or take the bus to school.

• Self-Selected

• Convenience

• Simple Random (SRS)

• Stratified Random

• Cluster Random

Example 5: Ms. Eckstein wants to know the percentage of juniors that will take two math classes their senior year. She asks students in her class to place their response on a sticky note if they want to share their opinion.

• Self-Selected

• Convenience

• Simple Random (SRS)

• Stratified Random

• Cluster Random

Data Collection: A college questions students on the quality of the dormitories on campus to decide which dormitory to upgrade over the summer break.

• Observational

• Experiment

• Simulation

• Survey

A researcher observes and measures characteristics of interest of part of a population but does not change existing conditions.

• Survey

• Simulation

• Experiment

• Observation