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<aside> 💡 In our final unit, you may choose to continue working with your unit 2 team or complete the final unit as an individual. Please let me know your decision on this by email or before or after class as soon as you have decided. I need to know to adjust the submission availability in Blackboard.

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Unit 3 will have two parts: 1) the creation and completion of a class-wide survey and 2) the writing of a short report explaining some important or interesting conclusions you’ve drawn from the data.

Objectives

• Practice designing a data collection tool (a survey in this case)
• Gain basic data analysis skills
• Learn techniques for communicating complex data to others
• Practice understanding and choosing useful or interesting segments of data from a larger data set
• Practice synthesizing data and information into a very concise format
• Reinforce the value of writing a short, actionable executive summary
• Improve design skills by creating charts, graphs, or a whole infographic
• Learn more about the ideas our class has about many different ideas

Class Survey

The class survey will be the source data for the final unit 3 short report. Together in class, we will construct a massive survey filled with questions about whichever topics we decide and/or vote on. I will have you brainstorm ideas for questions outside of class and in small groups. My other professional communication class will also contribute to this survey, so we will have about 50 students coming up with questions and responding to the survey.

This survey will be intentionally large and will hopefully focus on 3-5 main subject areas, depending on what everyone wants to ask everyone else. We will learn together how to construct useful survey questions. If needed, we will break the survey into multiple surveys, but that depends on what we decide to do.

The survey will be a combination of many different question types, including multiple choice, LIkert scales, and open-ended text response.

Think about things you want to ask your classmates about. Some ideas include:

• Future career plans
• Experiences you have had with Texas Tech administration or in your classes
• Past work experiences