Data collection and analysis tasks involve students gathering real-world information to make decisions or solve problems. These tasks require students to collect their own data or use existing data sets, analyze the data by finding patterns and trends, and classify or relate different parts of the data. Data analysis tasks provide students with raw materials like facts, numbers, or words and ask them to draw their own conclusions based on analyzing the provided data. These types of tasks can be used across different subject areas and expose students to organizing information and detecting patterns in meaningful, real-world data.