### Title: Enhancing Argumentation and Data Analysis Skills
**Synopsis:**
In this session, students engaged in a practical exercise to improve their argumentation and data analysis skills by reviewing homework, presenting news segments, and preparing for a research survey. The objective was to transition from basic essay writing to a more data-driven approach, emphasizing the interpretation and analysis of evidence to support arguments.
### Attendance:
– No specific mention of absent students in the transcript.
### Topics Covered:
1. **Homework Review and Roleplay Exercise:**
– Students reviewed their homework, imagining themselves as journalists reporting on identified problems.
– They prepared one-minute news segments summarizing the problem, its impact, who is affected, and when it began.
2. **Presentation of News Segments:**
– Students presented their segments, highlighting various issues such as safety regulation non-compliance, unemployment, rights of people with disabilities, traffic jams, passenger transportation law enforcement, air pollution, gender equality, civic activism, and freedom of the press.
3. **Survey Preparation:**
– Introduction to the upcoming research survey assignment.
– Discussion on the importance of surveys in collecting data to fill gaps in literature.
– Instructions on how to structure the survey, including demographic and topic questions, ensuring objectivity, clarity, relevance, and focused open-ended questions.
4. **Survey Implementation Guidance:**
– Guidance on using Google Forms for survey creation.
– Explanation of survey parts: title, introduction, demographic questions, topic questions.
– Types of questions: multiple choice, checkboxes, short answer, paragraph, and linear scale.
### Actionable Items:
– **Survey Creation:**
– Students must create a survey with at least 15 responses, preparing to send it to 20-25 people for adequate data collection.
– Surveys should be objective, clear, relevant, and focused to gather actionable insights.
– **Data Analysis and Interpretation:**
– Students need to learn how to interpret survey data, analyze patterns, and identify trends among different demographic groups.
– **Diversity in Survey Distribution:**
– Encourage students to distribute their surveys to a diverse group to minimize bias and gather varied perspectives.
### Homework:
– Create and finalize the survey with demographic and topic questions, ready to be distributed.
– Prepare for data analysis discussion in the next class.
– Ensure the survey is set up in Google Forms or a similar tool and is ready to send out by the next Wednesday.