–by Zhenzhou Hu
What is the most challenging course at Palm Valley School? In Statistics class, I learned how to make a chart and compile data. So, out of curiosity, I started an anonymous questionnaire called “Name Your Two Most Challenging Classes.” I interviewed 30 PVS upper-school students from across all grades. Given how we all groan about how hard our science classes are, the results were a little . . . surprising. Thank you to all who participated!
Science loses to English…and history!? This is unacceptable! Science deserves to be much higher on that list. I hereby challenge all PVS science teachers to increase the difficulty of their courses immediately!
Many students interviewed didn’t even attempt the AP science courses. Science has its reputation!
From a data analysis perspective, I would combine all the science courses together to make them more comparable to ‘English’ and ‘History’.
That’s reasonable.
The graphs are low-definition, I can’t read any of the options of classes selected…
Also, wouldn’t it be smarter to interview people who you know are in every class? What I mean is, my brother Andrew took AP Art History, inly 3 or 4 people were in that class. But if that class was the most difficult, it would only recieve 3-4 votes, wheras if 5 freshman voted PE as the hardest class when it was nowhere near the difficulty of AP Art History. I think it would have been best to select people for this experiment who have taken almost all classes at palm valley. (Seniors)
Most interviewed WERE seniors.