Part One: Do This With the Group You Made the Survey With.
make a one-sheet of your survey data. A detailed list of expectations on the one-sheet are below.
a one-sheet is a single piece of paper that will contain ALL of the information you have gathered. For each piece of information, it should have a graph and a one sentence explanation of what information should be obvious from that data. This is what statisticians are often asked for--YOU do all the hard work with the numbers and THEY ask you to make it simple and obvious what should be done.
on this piece of work YOU MAY OMIT THE R WORK YOU HAVE DONE AND JUST PROVIDE THE GRAPHS.
here's a little code to help you. see what it does.
scores.q.1=c(1,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,3,4,5,4,5,6,4,3,2,3,4,5,3)
barplot(table(scores.q.1),xlab="least happy -------------- most happy")
here's some even better code:
graph1=matrix(c(0,4,5,3,8),byrow=TRUE,ncol=5)
dimnames(graph1)=list("Number of students",c("happy","sad","okay","not okay","the best"))
barplot(graph1, las=2)
note: I strongly suggest that you try this code out (especially the second one). If you can follow that code and figure out what it's doing it's going to make your life a whole lot easier. to do this, you can copy this code directly into r, and then try it out. experiment with the code, see if you can make it what your data should be.
Your one sheet should include:
Graphs for all seven of your questions in clear, concise and correct form.
These graphs should look awesome. The should be clean and appropriately labeled
A brief statement or conclusion that you drew from the graph.
Aspects of graphic design. Try to make this look nice--do not make it simply look like seven graphs and sentences on a piece of paper. Consider your...
title(s)
graph size
graph color
font
font size
font color
It may be beneficial to make a mockup of the one-page before the actual one-page, so that you have an idea of what you are going for.
AFTER THAT:
write a brief paragraph
the paragraph should make comments about the class that you have gleaned from your survey. You may make observations about the information, extrapolate about what changes need to be made in the class, or even make recommendations for changes in the class--as long as you back it up with your data. this may overlap with the answers you provided previously.
if you were to write this survey again, what would it look like?
create the 7 questions you would ask if you had to do it again. Explain any changes. YOU SHOULD MAKE SOME CHANGES--there are things in each survey I saw that could be better.
These two things are done on a separate piece of paper, obviously.
FINALLY: I am going to be giving you a take-home quiz on Friday. If you finish early, let me know and I will let you start on the take home... but I must approve your other work first.