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file. I added the introduction,and the data overview. I started the data analysis but I get a little frustrated with the way I have my data formatted and the way the indexing works with pandas. Ifigured out that I need to use 'loc' and/or 'ilock' for how I want to use my data. Tomorrow I will attempt to use these to start my analysis.
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# Project proposal
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This planning document will also form the introduction of your
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argument.
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## Overarching Question
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### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
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*The question I'm interested in exploring is 'How has COVID-19 pandemic impacted student's matehmetical skills'. I am interested in this question because in my teaching residency placement, I have noticed that the students in my physics class lack the fundamental mathemetical and computational reasoning skills that they should have achieved by grade level. I have been hearing from veteran teachers that their cohorts who were in middle school during the pandemic are the most prominent victims of this situation. I want to compare data for a cohort that has gone through the pandemic and compare their dataset to a cohort that has not.*
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### What specific research questions will you investigate?
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*"1. How has COVID-19 pandemic impacted student's matehmetical skills. 2. Is there a decrease in mathematical proficiency for the COVID-19 middle school cohorts? 3.How does mathemetical proficiency of high school students differ between COVID-19 middle school cohorts and the cohorts before them?*
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## Data source
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### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question?
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*I will be using the NYSED data as my resource. I will be using their data for my residency high school specifically. I will be using the archived report cards and pull from section 2: Student Performance - Regents Exams in these report cards.
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https://data.nysed.gov/archive.php?instid=800000052345*
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### Where is this data from?
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*As mentioned above the data is from NYSED. I do trust this data because it is directly from the State and it includes data from their statewide official examinations that have set standards and *
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### What is this data about?
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*This data set is about the Regents testing scores of Cheektowaga High School. It includes all subjects (10 rows) however I am only interested in math related tests (rows 2-4). I am also focusing on general education students (column 2) instead of all (column 1) or special education students (column 3). Every column has built-in columns for specific data such as total tested, percentage of students scoring at or above 55, 65 and 85.*
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## Methods
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### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
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*First I will choose 3-4 cohorts, at least one that was in middle school before COVID-19, one during and one after. I will look at each cohort's performance across middle and high school years. I plan creating a line graph for each and then comparing these with each other. I also want to compare the percentages of below and above passing scores in each cohort. This can be tabulated.*
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