APA Action Research Project

Things I learned from this exercise while doing my action research project.

Google Docs
- Google Docs does not support all Excel functions.
- PDF files cannot be published using Google Docs, they can ony be shared with others.

APA Formatting
- APA formatting is very different from MLA formatting.
- APA formatting is much more scientific.
- Numbers and statistics are more important in APA formatting than they are in MLA formatting.

I also made a video on how to install the analysis tool pack in Excel.  After I installed the tool pack, I made a video of me using using the TTEST function in Excel.  The P value was very small when I did the TTEST so that means that there is a significant difference in the two sets of data.

Action Research Project

For our action research project, we learned proper APA formatting for our paper using the Purdue OWL resource.  This consisted of how to correctly do a cover page as well as making a runing header and page number at the top of each page.  We also used Excel to organize the data for this paper.  We learned several different functions and formatting processes to help us organize our data to put in the action research paper. 

Excel Spreadsheet lesson 3

We continued working with Excel spreadsheets using more formulas to organize data.  It is my understanding that this activity will help us when we do our action research project.  I also learned it is a good idea to save excel spreadsheets in more than one place because Google docs does not support all the functions that Excel has, therefore sometimes it Excel spreadsheets will not always work when they are uploaded to Google docs.  This activity would fit under ISTE NETS standard 3.

Using Excel

Today we continued to use Microsoft Excel to work on a gradebook. We used the average, min, max, and countif functions to average the students' grades and detirmine which letter grade they will receive.  We also joined some groups on our diigo account. This fufills the ISTE NETS standard 3.

Today we started using Excel today and applying it to a gradebook situation.  We averaged grades for each term and then made a semester average.  By being able to do this, I will be able to keep students' grades organized and kept up, as well as being able to give a student their grade if they should ask for it.  This fufills the ISTE NETS standard 3.  Click below to see my gradebook.




Excel Gradebook