In class on Thursday, I recorded the duration of every response to each question asked in class. I did this, because I thought it would be interesting to see if the response time increased as we got more in depth with a particular subject, and then when the subject changed, the response time would drop, and then slowly build back up again. The data indicates that this theory is not correct, because the response times do not appear to have any clearly visible trend. This is likely because as we go more in depth with a topic, the questions do not necessarily require an longer answer. In fact, some of the introductions to new topics might have required the longest answers, because it was necessary to describe a large amount of information to the class.
Summary Statistics (Time Spent Talking in Class)
This indicates that approximately 10 and 1/3 minutes of our class time was spent by students responding to questions.
Plot of Response Times
Plot of Difference in Response Times
Plot of Whether there was an Increase or Decrease in Length of Response (1=Increase)
