Quality Assurance
Overview
Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.
Title of Lesson: Quality Assurance
Course Name: AP Statistics
Grade Level: 11-12
Author’s Name: Todd M. Knol
Author’s School District: Palmyra Area School District
| PA Academic Standards for Mathematics | |
CC.2.4 Measurement, Data & Probability CC.2.4.HS.B.1 - Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable.
CC.2.4.HS.B.5 - Make inferences and justify conclusions based on sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies. | |
| PA Academic Standards for Career Education and Work | |
13.1. Career Awareness and Preparation 13.1.11.F. - Analyze the relationship between career choices and career preparation opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Conceptual Background | |
Background information would include the following concepts from AP Statistics:
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| Instructional Procedure | |
| Pacing | Instructional Procedure |
10 minutes 30 minutes | Teacher introduction Student research and report on jobs in Quality Assurance. Complete Career Exploration Worksheet. Explain the connection between this type of career and the content/concepts from AP Statistics. |
| 30 minutes + additional independent work time | Student, with partner, analyze data file. Students produce summary statistics and graphs of samples taken. Students use statistics (Confidence Intervals, Test of Significance) to answer the question, “Are the bagels meeting the company specifications?”. Students will then deliver a file of all work to the “director of quality assurance” (teacher). Students will also need to write an email response to the Vice President of Operations answering his/her question - “Are the bagels meeting the company specifications?” |
| Formative Assessment | |
Each student will complete the Career Exploration Worksheet.Each student and partner team will hand in the file analyzing the data.
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| Materials Needed | |
| 250 Quality Control Baked LogCareer Exploration Form112 | |
| References | |