Dana's+Statistical+Investigation

__**Preferred books by Fairfield Intermediate Students.**__ This investigation entitles finding out what types of books Fairfield Intermediate pupils enjoy reading. During this investigation, random ten to thirteen year old pupils at Fairfield Intermediate, who enjoy reading, will be questioned about their likings in books. It is hoped that once the outcome is known, the library can be extended to everyone’s likings. It is expected that most people would like fiction, chapter books that’s genre was science fiction. Once the outcome is known we will propose that the librarian should buy some more books with in the description.
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**__Participants:__** 36 year 7 and 8 students from Fairfield Intermediate were randomly surveyed because of their liking in reading books in the school library. **__Materials:__** Pen & paper were used to record data along with Internet access for graphing. Randomly picked participants at the school library during lunch times were surveyed. They were asked to say if their book was Fiction or Non-fiction, If their book was a magazine, a chapter book, a picture book or a factual book. Then they were asked to state what the Genre of their book was. Results were recorded into a tally graph then transferred to column graphs (recorded below). The results were proved that most students read chapter, fiction books that were mixed Genres. To see the fiction and non-fiction results look at figures 7, 8, and 9. To see the results for the types of books see figures 4, 5 and 6. To see the results of the genres see figures 1, 2 and 3.
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 * Factual || Science Fiction || Romance || Comedy || Adventure || Mystery || Investigation || Fantasy || Mythical || Mix /Other ||
 * 4 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 5 || 2 || 15 ||


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 * Magazine || Chapter Book || Picture Book || Factual Book ||
 * 5 || 28 || 1 || 2 ||


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 * Fiction || Non-Fiction ||
 * 26 || 10 ||


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**__Discussion:__** It wasn’t surprising to find that most students enjoyed reading fiction, chapter books. It was however surprising to find that most people enjoyed reading books with mixed genres. It was interesting to find that the librarians thought that the most common genre was adventure. 5 out of 18 people preferred to read non-fiction books and 1 out of 36 people preferred picture books to any other, this was not surprising news to find. It was also not surprising to find that 0 out of 36 pupils enjoyed romance as the age group was quite young. The Investigator’s prediction was close but not completely accurate, as it was thought that the genre would be science fiction because of the craze for Twilight. If this investigation was conducted again students would selected to be questioned less randomly. They would be asked based on what classes they’re in e.g. accelerate, laptop, digital, bilingual and main stream. The graphs for this investigation were done well and to a high standard. The time limit spent on this investigation could have been reduced a bit due to technical problems. This investigation will be carried through by asking the librarian to extend our library with fiction, chapter books that are mixed genres.
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