Mayfield High School Data Handling Project

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Mayfield High School Data Handling Project

Aim:

I am going to collect and express evidence to explore my hypothesis that:

Males have a higher IQ than females, in years 10-11

Then I am going to expand my investigation to explore the hypothesis that:

IQ affects Key Stage 3 Math's results

I am only going to use data from Year 10 and 11 because I feel it is more relevant to myself.

Collecting the data:

For this investigation I am going to need to collect data from 60 sample students from years 10-11. The data I need will need will be IQ, Gender, Year, and Key Stage 3 Math's Results. I will obtain the all this data from the Mayfield High database, this is a fictitious school but the data been based on a real school, means the evidence will be reliable and will be accurate enough for me to draw conclusions.

The database held information on a total of 1183 students, to analyze all the students would be very hard because there is too much data and graphs and diagrams. So I have decided to take a stratified