Data Analysis

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The purpose of this activity is provide strategies for using the data that you have collected for developing viable recommendations

Before Class

• For each person in your group, bring to class a hard copy of an empty grid that has the following colunm titles across the top row (Research questions, answer, evidence collected, conclusions, prelimanary recommendations, and notes), and has your own groups research questions going down the first column. DO NOT fill the rest of the grid in yet. Also bring enough copies of the data you have collected for each person in your group.

During Class

• Work individually to fill out the your group's data grid using the data that you have collected so far.
• For the last fifteen minutes of class, meet as a group and discuss what you have concluded.
  • On the back of the leader's grid, address using a pen...
    • what are the strongest conclusions that the group has developed?
    • what research question have you included to your original list?
    • what does your group still need to do to answer the unanswered research questions?
• Staple your group's grid together at the end of class and submit them to the instructor.