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Fathoming Student Learning: a Survey Based Approach Using Fathom Surveys to Formative Assessment in an AP-Statistics Classroom

This paper describes a classroom experience using a data gathering and analysis tool to scaffold a learning process that involves classroom surveys as a means of gathering formative assessment data.. An AP-Statistics class uses data about their own sleep patterns to investigate measures of variability. The class applies various measures of variability to the sleep data set and comments on their efficacy using a survey created in Fathom. The students comment on the measures in groups, rate the measures, and provide justifications. Students in a statistics class should find themselves routinely engaged in data analysis. Asking students to comment on invented measures of variability provides valuable formative assessment data for the instructor.