Ordering Procedures for The Survey Toolkit

You can obtain copies of The Survey Toolkit following the appropriate procedures based on your location:

1) Order The Survey Toolkit by contacting McGraw-Hill (MHE) in the United States.

The Survey Toolkit* ($32.75 USD/copy) can be ordered by contacting MHE by email @ orders_mhe@mheducation.com or customer service phone number 1-800-338-3987 and communicating the following information:

I would like to order _____ copies of The Survey Toolkit (ISBN #978-1-55953-886-2) written by Thomas

Walsh. Please send the book(s) to: <include name and postal mailing address>

MHE will enclose a bill with the shipment receipt and send an email confirming the order request.

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Contact the service phone number 1-800-338-3987 for other country locations.

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Program Description

The Survey Toolkit Collecting Information, Analyzing Data, and Writing Reports (Walsh 2009) has been designed to help students primarily in grades six to eight use surveys to gather meaningful information about the world they live in. Development of The Survey Toolkit evolved over 10 years with the author’s students in grades three and six. The activities in the text provide project based learning activities guiding students in choosing a research question; developing and giving the survey; analyzing survey data and sharing results. Through developing and giving a survey, students experiment with data gathering and data analysis techniques developing question structure and scientific inquiry skills, learn about ethics, and write in a mathematical context. The activities in The Survey Toolkit are aligned with national standards in mathematics and language arts. Depending on the choice of topics, students’ projects could also help them meet social studies or science standards. Analysis of survey data is supported in the text using TinkerPlots Dynamic Data Exploration computer software allowing students to make easily and quickly all the graphs they can think of, helping them explore the many relationships to be found in survey data.

A review of the literature was conducted prior and during development of a survey based research curriculum applying principals of statistics. Awareness of students’ statistical conceptions and beliefs, along with teacher’s concepts and ideas about statistics, guided the methodology and development of the statistics curriculum project. A detailed literature review of the listed topics is provided in the referenced publication (Walsh, 2017). The Survey Toolkit Resource Manual (Walsh 2011) was written for students and teachers to support and provide background reading and activities for The Survey Toolkit text. The readings and activities were used in the author’s sixth grade Extended Learning Program (ELP gifted) classroom with students to guide the development of their survey research projects. The chapter readings provide the student with additional information about key concepts and vocabulary involved in conducting survey research. The appendix provides a vocabulary dictionary for students to record terms presented in the lessons, which may serve as a review prior to giving the post-assessment. Vocabulary pages for placement on a word wall are also included in the appendix. Additional student activity pages to support instruction are provided including a factoid page, survey template form, guidelines for creating data cards, TinkerPlots graph completion checklist, and peer review log for student project feedback. The table of contents in the resource manual suggests where to integrate the activities from the guide with the main curriculum manual The Survey Toolkit. A staff development plan for training teachers is also included in the resource manual. Refer to the references below for additional information about the development and use of The Survey Toolkit texts with students.

References

Walsh, T. (2009). The Survey Toolkit Collecting Information, Analyzing Data, and Writing Reports. Emeryville, California: Key Curriculum Press.

Walsh, T. (2011). Implementing Project Based Survey Research Skills to Grade Six ELP Students with The Survey Toolkit and TinkerPlots.® The Journal of Statistics Education, 19 (1), 1-27. Retrieve from: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/contents_2011.htm

Walsh, T. (2011). The Survey Toolkit Resource Manual. Available at The Journal of Statistics Education, 19 (1), 1-27. Retrieve from:http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v19n1/SurveyToolkitResourceManual2011.pdf

Walsh, T. (2017). Support and considerations for implementing The Survey Toolkit project-based curriculum using TinkerPlots®. In M. Shelley & M. Pehlivan (Eds.), Education Research Highlights in Mathematics, Science and Technology 2017 (pp. 77-94).

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