The Brief Steps Of An APDD Investigation

Welcome back, class! Today we'll be going through the brief steps of an APDDI. Please do not expect much, as this is one of your first proper lessons and you are just beginners to this course. Alright, let's get started!

1. Brainstorm ideas for a subject for a flowchart! You may not remember, but from the previous course we briefly went over how to think of ideas for a subject for a flowchart. There are many methods to do this, but the main one you should use as a beginner is scribbling down anything that you think is interesting, such as your hobbies: football, basketball, colours, whatever! Whatever you think is interesting and deserves more statistics about.

2. Create the flowchart! This is possibly one of the most fun steps in the process of an APDDI. Remember to make the flowchart make sense in the way that the words are laid out and the sentence structures. The presentation also matters; the colours and shapes should look orderly so it appeals to the individual who is taking the flowchart.

3. Share the flowchart! Show it to friends and/or family, or share it on social media and websites to promote your flowchart so other people can take it too.

4. Make a poll for the flowchart! Make a poll for the people who have taken the flowchart, so they can pick which end task they got. A website I recommend for polls is https://strawpoll.com/. You could include the link to the poll in the description of the flowchart. Remember to set the poll to only people who take a direct link to the poll can take it.

5. Make a chart out of the results! Before doing this, you should wait a week or two for the results to come in and settle. You don't want to make a chart out of a poll which only has a few votes.

6. Make a conclusion! Make a conclusion from the chart by writing a few paragraphs about outliers, gaps, frequency, etc.

We will be going through all of these steps in detail, which equals to at least seven modules in this course (including this one and the 'Welcome Back' module). Please revise these steps and topics at home as you will need to know them for the end of term test(s) which may seem some way away, but are still approaching very fast.

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