9/11/14

Your homework is to review the survey (one more time) and think about the quality of the questions and ways to improve them. After reflecting, you will choose 3 questions and rewrite/reword so as to improve them with the goal of eliciting clear, useful answers. There will also be a check-in tomorrow, so review this week's notes.

Questions to keep in mind to help you reflect upon and then refine the survey's questions:

•       Were there any questions that seemed to produce lots of vague answers?
•       Were there any questions that were vague or unclear?
•       Did responders seem to skip any question or part of a question? If so, why do you think that was the case?
•       Were there instances where you felt the responses were overly brief and hard to use/analyze?

After thinking about these questions, choose and rewrite 3 questions so that they can produce clear, useful answers. You can add or remove words, make certain pieces of text stand out, or add further instructions, hints, or examples of model responses.

9/10/14

Tonight's homework is to revise Assignment 3 by:

1. creating a table and/or a graph to illustrate the data
2. supporting any conclusions by specific referring to useful portions of the data

Optional/Extra Credit - In addition to revising Assignment 3, carry out a thorough analysis of the data for 2 other questions in the survey.

See below for models of analysis/concluding.

Students in 11AC and 12AC seem to like chicken dishes the most. Over 20 percent of all respondents listed a food explicitly incorporating chicken. Other popular favorites included pizza and pasta, each reported as a favorite food in 18 percent of surveys. If the definition of pasta is expanded to incorporate macaroni and cheese, then it is the most popular favorite food among Food Science students, with about 1 in 4 students mentioning a pasta dish as a favorite.

When asked to justify their choice of favorite food, students overwhelmingly stated that the taste of the food was the reason of the choice. Nearly two-thirds (66%) of respondents stated taste (or a similar term) as justification for their favorite food. A familiarity with the food (or cuisine) was a distant second most common reason behind a favorite - appearing in 16 percent of responses. Interestingly, about 10 percent of students reported that the fact that a food (like pasta or pizza) could be served or prepared in different ways was the reason that it was a favorite.

9/9/14

Tonight's homework is Assignment 3 which involves:

1. reading each question in the survey (from the first day of school) and stating which factor(s)/determinant(s) of food choice it relates to,
2. choosing 3 questions of interest and analyzing all of your class' responses (or look at both classes!) in order to make inferences. The responses to the survey can be found in the previous post.

Access to First Day Survey Responses

11AC Front page

11AC Back page

12AC Front page

12AC Back page

9/8/14

Tonight's homework is to complete Assignment 2 which involves recording everything that you consume today (both food and drink) and then explaining how your food/drink choices were affected by at least 5 of the factors discussed in class today. Below you will find the charts you constructed in class.

12AC

11AC:

9/5/14

This weekend's homework is to complete Assignment #1 by completing the Reading a Scientific Journal Article Graphic Organizer for the assigned article. You should also review the syllabus/contract with your parent(s)/guardian(s) and get it signed.

Remember that from class today, you should:

1. Start by reading the title (thanks Patrick) and then the abstract.
2. Next skim the introduction looking for big ideas and the purpose behind the investigation.
3. Skip to the discussion section to find the authors' conclusions and the applications of those findings.
4. Finally, check the results section to find evidence to support the conclusions that the authors drew.

The 11th grade section should read and write about Why Americans eat what they do and 12th graders should read and write about Among young adults, college students and graduate practiced more healthful habits...

Reading a Scientific Journal Article Graphic Organizer

Title:

Author(s):

Why was the research carried out? What is the purpose/problem that this research addresses?

What did the researchers actually do in their investigation?

What conclusions did they draw?

What pieces of evidence support those conclusions?

What are the applications of these findings? And/or what are the next steps that authors propose?

Summer Assignment Rubric

The following will be used to evaluate your responses on the summer assignment.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Support of claim	Thoroughly supports claims with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as refuted counterclaims	Supports claims with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as attempts at forming counterclaims/ refutations of them	Supports claims with multiple detailed, convincing specific reasons/pieces of evidence but neglects to make use of counterclaim	Supports claims with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim
Demonstrates knowledge	Consistently demonstrates deep knowledge of material in readings by constantly: using vocabulary, explaining examples clearly, incorporating statistics, etc.	Consistently demonstrates knowledge of material in readings by: using vocabulary, explaining examples clearly, incorporating statistics, etc and minor errors or occasions for further explanation may be present	Demonstrates knowledge of material in readings by using vocabulary, etc. but with multiple or glaring errors or lack of a detail	Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of material from readings through errors or lack of usage/ explanation.
Credit to sources	While writing in his/her own words, correctly completes an APA/MLA formatted bibliography AND properly cites within text	While writing in his/her own words, completes an APA/MLA formatted bibliography AND cites within text with only minor errors	While writing in his/her own words, completes an APA/MLA formatted bibliography AND cites within text but with clear errors	Bibliography, citations, or both are missing or it is obvious that student is not giving due credit to sources through his/her style of writing
Writing conventions	Writes elegantly and in a sophisticated manner while very consistently adhering to spelling and grammar conventions	Very consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions	Consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions	Mostly adheres to spelling and grammar conventions