The document summarizes the results of a challenge success survey given to 6th grade students at Graded Middle School. It analyzes response data through graphs and discusses perspectives from administrators, parents, teachers, and students. It also identifies two misleading graphs that were used in a teacher-administrator meeting and by students to lobby for less homework. In conclusion, it poses two follow-up questions for further investigation.

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Challenge Success Survey
By: Tashi G.

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Introduction
 Last year, Graded middle school and other schools around the
world completed a challenge success survey. This year, 6th
grade math teacher Ms. J pulled out eight questions from the
survey and had the sixth grade fill them out. I am a reporter
who has studied these responses closely and have made the
following article about what I found at Graded.
 Mode= Approximately 75%

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Graphs
Circle Graph

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Graphs (continued)
Bar Graph

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Graphs (continued)
Line Graph

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Graphs (continued)
Frequency Table

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Analyses
 Graph analysis

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Analyses (continued)
 From an administrator’s point of view..

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Analyses (continued)
 From a parent’s point of view..

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Analyses (continued)
 From a student’s point of view..

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Misleading Graphs
 During my visit at Graded, I was invited to sit in at a teacher-
administrator meeting and a class I saw the following graphs
being used.

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Misleading Graphs (continued)
 Students made this graph to convince teachers to give them
less homework. Their title is convincing, there is chart clutter
and there is no zero baseline.

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Misleading Graphs (continued)
 I found this graph at a teacher-administrator meeting, being
presented by a teacher showing how useful homework is to
students. This is extremely misleading. Take a second to look
at the intervals. They are uneven. The title is planting the seed
in your mind that makes you believe that students find this
much meaning in homework. And where is the zero baseline?
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Misleading Graph (continued)
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Follow-Up Questions
 Now, as a reporter, I must think deeper. What are some follow-
up questions?
Follow-Up Question #1 Follow-Up Question #2

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Citations
 PowerPoint (As used for presentation)
 QuickTime Player (For audio)
 Google Docs (Used to hold my thinking)
 Google Presentation (Used to hold my thinking)