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Measuring stress

Kelly asks Year 11 pupils how stressed they feel during their mock exams.

“People feel stressed when they have exams.”

Can you think of any problems with this hypothesis?

What steps would you take to ensure that you could accurately record the data?

What types of question would you ask the students?

Would you be looking to find out qualitative or quantitative information? Why?

Her working hypothesis is that:

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Using a scale to collect results

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Kelly gives the same questionnaire to the same participants a month later.

Do you think that the results will have changed? Why/why not?

What do you think Kelly could do with the results that she has gathered?

Collecting numerical data

Kelly decides to add the numbers chosen by each participant to give them a total score.

She calls this their “stress score”.

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Data comparison

Kelly records the before and after scores in a table.

What conclusions can you draw from the data?

Mock

After

Mock

After

Mock

After

10 15 11 10 15 14 14 12 7 16

8 16 12 9 14 18 12 17 15 17

16 11 18 14 12 14 10 15 13 11

8 12 6 14 13 8 10 4 10

8 5 10 8 14 5 12 7 9

12 5 9 4 6 11 10 5 4 4

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True or false?