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Is there a direct and measurable correlation between the amount of poverty in a country and the quality of education in that country?”

One Final Example: Human Development Index

“What’s going on here? What makes you say that?”

Review

What is a correlation?

What types of correlation can you see?

How do we define quality of education?

How do we define poverty?

How can we test our proposition, Resolved: There is a direct and measurable correlation between the amount of poverty in a country and the quality of education in that country?”

References

Gapminder Foundation. (2013). Explore the world. Gapminder. Retrieved from http://www.gapminder.org/

Wikipedia. (2013, March 23). Human Development Index. Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

Inquiry

How do we define quality of education?

How do we define poverty?

Quality of Education

What is a correlation?

Look at http://www.gapminder.org/data/ on your iPads

Search for “education”.

Take a look at this list of data.

Which one of these (variables) could best be used to define quality of education?

Tell the class why you think this is the case.

Student Examples Using Gap Minder

What kind of correlation do you see? Positive, Negative, or Zero

How strong is the correlation that you see? Strong, Weak, or None.

Poverty

Look at http://www.gapminder.org/data/ on your iPads

Search for “poverty”

Take a look at this list of data.

Which one of these (variables) could best be used to define poverty?

Tell the class why you think this is the case.

A correlation is the measurement of a relationship. The direction of a correlation can be Negative, Positive, or Zero. The strength of a correlation can be Strong, Weak, or None.

Offer some examples of two things (variables) that you think could be related.

What kind of correlation do you see? Positive, Negative, or Zero.

How strong is the correlation that you see? Strong, Weak, or None.

Gap Minder

What kind of correlation do you see? Positive, Negative, or Zero

How strong is the correlation that you see? Strong, Weak, or None.

Life Expectancy and: Income/person; Children/woman; Democracy

Gap Minder: http://goo.gl/rsGWi

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