Today you will be working in groups to form a research question about our community that you would like to answer throughout the course of this unit.
What is a research question?
A big general question that you want to know more about.
A question that is not easily answered.
It is not black and white, there are many factors that effect it.
In math we often ask research question in the form, "Is there a relationship between....?"
What makes a good research question?
It should be about something you're interested in.
You should be able to collect multiple pieces of data about this topic.
You can think of several different ways to answer the question.
Can you give me some examples?
Is there a relationship between student achievement and music participation?
Is there a relationship between test scores and academic achievement?
Is there a relationship between social media and homework completion?
Is there a relationship between nutrition and age?
Why are these good research question?
Because you could collect all sorts of data to try to answer them!
For example:
Is there a relationship between test scores and academic achievement?
I could collect data on:
- Algebra Regents Scores
- Living Environment Regents Scores
- College acceptance
- Overal grade average
- Individual class grades
- Age
- High School Deploma Type
- SAT scores
Ok we have our question. Now what?!
Fill out this survey to submit your research question.
Begin doing some background research.
Begin creating a list of things that will help you answer your question.