The rock star in charge of this project is:

END OF THE YEAR CUMULATIVE PROJECT (six parts):

Report Proposal (35 points)

Due May 20th

v  The question of investigation/curiosity:

v  Population of interest:

v  Your HO and HA’s clearly written and explained, in addition to whether it is one or two tailed.

v  A description of: who, what, where, when and how you are going to collect your data. Be specific and thorough. This document you are writing should answer every question that may come up about your study/experiment. It must address how this study / experiment is reproducible and what steps you are taking to meet all the requirements of a good scientific study. If you are doing a survey, you must have all your questions written, piloted and included in final form and format. The ONLY requirement for what project you chose to undertake is: The project must be something that adds to the community’s knowledge, solves a problem, or answers a question that is of interest to the community.

I. Data Report (50 points)

Due May 29th

This section should be a thorough explanation of how you collected your data and be a beautiful example of how much you’ve learned this year about the difficulties getting a representative sample. Examples of what you should include are:

v  How you collected your data

v  Why you are confident your sample is representative of your population OR why your experiment meets the conditions of good experimental design OR why you decided that your sample is not representative and how you would have done it differently.

v  Biases avoided and not avoided

v  A summary snapshot of your data: either in Excel format or in a table/matrix summary.

II.  Exploring the Data (50 points)

Due June 3th

v  This section should be an outstanding example of exploratory data analysis (the first units in our text). Graphs should show the comparisons between all relevant groups you are comparing. You should state any preliminary conclusions that can be drawn by using your eyeballs.

v  Graphs of your data

v  Statistics from your data

v  Descriptions of the graphs and statistics.

v  JMP is available to you for calculations if you want.

III.  Analyzing the Data (50 points)

Due June 10, 11, or 12th (the day of the presentation and final)

Analyze your data using whatever method(s) is appropriate for your data. Your conclusion should be nicely written using all appropriate statistical support.

v  Hypothesis Test (with conditions checked) and HO and HA’s clearly written and/or

v  Confidence Intervals (with conditions checked) and/or

v  Your Grand Conclusion!

IV.  Presentation & Final Exam (worth 15% of the class grade)

Due June 10, 11, or 12th (the day of the presentation and final)

Must include:

v  Clearly communicate your question and how you collected your data (5 pts.).

v  Visually display graphs of your data—PowerPoint, overhead, poster, or video (5 pts. extra for a video). I do not want a pretty poster that summarizes your whole project. I want you to make a visual aid that shows the class how your data came out. There should be only minimal text on your visual aid—titles and big numbers—not any explanations.

v  Clearly communicate your conclusion (5 pts.).

v  Be interesting to listen to and give us some sort of “hook” to inspire us to listen (5 pts).

v  Do not read off your visual aid—use note cards or your report. Be careful how you communicate numbers to the class—too many numbers at once is confusing, as is too many decimal places.

V.  Success!? (25 points)

I will evaluate the overall success and difficulty of your project. More challenging data collection issues add to your score. Small sample sizes or an overly simple question of interest will lower your score.

Details You Should Know

v  Make your own copies of the data, etc. Electronic copies of all of your materials, reports, etc. are MANDATORY. They can be emailed, but submission electronically is required! You do not need to make copies for the class of your paper. The presentation should contain all relevant information.

v  Don’t get lazy—this is to be the summation of what you’ve learned all year.

v  Please type your paper. Hand-done work is acceptable for some graphs, etc if it is done very neatly, although calculator graphs can be copied and pasted (see me for help!)

Your work should be thorough and clearly written. Bullet points can be used to delineate a list of observations. Clear communication and thorough analysis is necessary for full credit.


AP Stats Rubric Your Name: ______

Final exam Presenters Names: ______

Presenters Names: ______

Presenters Names: ______

Presenters Names: ______

Please evaluate the presentations according to the following scale. You will need to justify your answer with complete sentences.

4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Data collecting / Data was collected well. Sample represents population well, biases were avoided purposefully. / Data was collected, but not well, the population is kind of represented, there may be some biases worked in. / Data was kind of collected, the population is not represented, there may be biases. / Data was badly collected, did they even try to represent the population?
Data Exploration / Comparisons between data made with correct graphs (boxplot, histogram, etc); statistics shown and described well. / Comparisons between data made with graphs (boxplot, histogram, etc); statistics shown and described. / Comparisons between data kind of made with graphs (boxplot, histogram, etc); statistics shown and described poorly. / Comparisons, what comparisons? Was there data somewhere? I missed it.
Data Analyzing / Hypothesis test or Confidence Intervals clearly made correctly. / Hypothesis test or Confidence Intervals made, not sure if is correct. / Hypothesis test or Confidence Intervals made incorrectly. / Hypothesis what? Intervals? What are you talking about Willis?
Conclusion / Grand conclusion is thoroughly and completely supported by the data analysis and data exploration. / Grand conclusion is supported by the data analysis and data exploration. / Grand conclusion is kind of supported by the data analysis and data exploration. / Was there a point to that 10 minutes?
Presentation / Questions and data explained in pictures, and are clearly communicated and are interesting. / Questions and data kind of explained in pictures, and are communicated and are interesting. / Questions and data poorly explained in pictures, and are poorly communicated and are interesting. / I was lost the entire time.

Total score = ______out of 20

For other groups: On the back of this page, please write 2 paragraphs about the presentation. Some possible things to write about are: What surprised you; what didn’t surprise you; what questions did the project raise; how would you improve the project; what would you do differently?

For your own group: list the individuals in your group and give them a grade, A through D. Explain why you gave them the grade you did. This will be reflected in the final grade as well.

Finally, please tell me what I could have done differently in class to help you learn the material better. What suggestions do you have for me to improve?

AP Statistics Essay Name: ______

Date: ______

List all members in your group (including yourself) and then rate them and YOURSELF on a scale of 1 to 10 points. 1 point is “contributed very little to the project” while 10 points is “contributed greatly to the project.”

Name Rating

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Essay:

Please explain how this project contributed to your understanding of statistics or extended your learning of statistics. Please be specific, and include any difficulties you encountered in completing the project.

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