It is time to continue your digital data collection journey. If you are here, you have probably already created your digital Google data forms and are ready to learn how to analyze the data you are taking. Way to go! If you missed out on how to create a digital data form using Google, click to view the guide below:
Step-by-Step Guide to Analyzing Your Digital Data:
Once you have a few responses in your Google data forms, you can impress your principal, your parents and yourself on how beautiful your digital data can look! This blog post will show you step-by-step how to display the data you have recorded.
Find the Google data form you are working with in your Google account. Click on “responses.”
Some data lends itself well to viewing a beautiful pie chart. Luckily, Google Forms automatically creates this for you- no need to open in Google Sheets if you don’t want to. Data that lends itself well to a pie chart would be probe data (replying “yes, they performed the skill” or “no, they didn’t perform the skill). You can “copy” the chart and paste it into another document. Then, it’s good to go! You can see below that the student was able to identify the main idea 62.5% of the time.
For data that you would not like a pie or bar graph for, you may click the button called “link to sheets.”
Now, take a look at what Google Sheets is showing you. All the way on the left, you’ll see a time stamp of when the data was taken. The questions you asked will be along the top of the columns. Furthermore, within the cells you will see your raw data.
Now, it’s time to create a nice line graph to show off that beautiful data! Highlight only the data for one of the goals.
Now that your data is highlighted, click insert –> chart.
On the right-hand side, choose a different chart type. A line graph usually lends itself well to data showing the percentage of accuracy or frequency overtime.
Click on the “customize tab” to play around with the different settings. You might want to change the title of your graph and the title on the x- and y-axis. You can play around with the colors, too!
Once you’re happy with the way it looks, click the 3 dots in the upper-right corner of the graph. In this menu, you can move the graph to its own sheet or download the graph as a png or jpeg.
What do you think about digital data collection?
Digital data is pretty easy, right? My classroom routine and organization is so much better now! If you are looking for a quicker and easier start to digital data collection, check out my resource with over 60 digital data templates for academics, behavior, and so much more!
