GCSE: Maths: Data Handling Coursework

"This is a good start to your coursework, however I feel that it needs to be explained in a lot more detail. The introduction is quite short, however the aim makes up for this and it is quite clear what you are trying to achieve. Obviously the work is incomplete, but I would have like to have seen what results you gain. Overall, this is not a bad start, but there is a lot of work that still needs to be done. TSR User: boosh_slayer"

"Good, but the graphs are missing."

"It's a good, standard piece of GCSE statistics coursework. The maths is most definitely sound. There is a range of data analysis techniques used; it's a shame that saving it to be put on the internet has lost some of the more ambitious graphs. The author gets occasionally confused between the different hypotheses that are going on. They use stratified sample to consider the school as a whole, which is excellent, but they use this same sample when they are comparing and contrasting the data gathered between boys and girls, which means comparing data between a sample of 49 and 51 students. They also fail to consider one quite sizeable problem in this tally... the data that they get is a bit meaningless. "On average, boys in this story are taller than girls" which is a bit vague, as it doesn't take into account whether boys are older on average etc. On the surface, it's a solid piece of work, but it doesn't step out much from beyond the safe statistical analysis to actually consider what the statistics are meaning to show, or do. TSR User:DavyS"

"Good read, although I found the repetitiveness of 'Therefore' far too much! Instead of saying 'therefore', I would explain why these results cause this graph to occur, etc. Although I did think it was an interesting read and overall a good essay. TSR User:Phobia27"

"Good, but the graph is missing."