COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA

In this task, you will develop an educational problem statement relevant to your educational setting. You will then analyze existing data relevant to the problem statement to draw conclusions and make recommendations that drive continuous improvement.

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A.   Develop a problem statement for an educational problem that can be investigated by accessing and analyzing data. The problem statement must state the problem and its impact and cause.

B.   Identify existing data that you will use to address the problem statement from part A by including the following:

   general characteristics or demographics of participants

   timeliness of the data

   type of data

   instrument used to collect the data

   how the data are relevant to the problem
 

Note: The data and information used must have been collected prior to beginning this assessment.

C.  Analyze the data from part B and then provide a summary of the results, including the following:

   the method used to analyze the data 

   a description of the analyzed data results 

   a visual representation of the analyzed results (e.g., table, chart, graph)

D.  Provide the following based on the summary of your results from part C: 

1.  Describe two conclusions from the analyzed data that are relevant to the problem statement from part A.

2.  Describe two recommendations for how your conclusions from part D1 could be used to drive continuous improvement to address the educational problem from part A.

E.  Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

F.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.