PAPER                         MAX        EARNED

Content                        30        28
  correct
  appropriate
  complete

- the information you provided was interesting.  Much of it is known,
  at least in broad terms, to Judy and Christian already (because it
  is EDA, and they have done their own version of EDA on this data 
  before).

- if you had had time, even your EDA leads to interesting further
  analyses. e.g.:
   - jumps and dips in # of alumni graduating in fig 3
   - additional analyses of differences between email and nonemail
     alums (logistic regr?)
   - contingency table analysis of relationships between different
     ways alums can be 'active'




Organizations                   20        18
  overall
  sentences and paragraphs
  signposts for skim reader
  two audiences (investigator
    and instructors)

- TOC useful

- well organized at the level of sections and subsections.  Section
  and subsection names indicate problems of interest to clients rather
  than stat methods (that is good)

- local organization (sentences and parags) pretty good too

Format                         10          8
  layout
  typography

- fine.  

- tables and figs break up text a bit.  A better strategy would be to
  use only a couple talbes and figs in the main text and save the rest
  for an appx

Language                       10         10
  voice
  precise
  clear
  concise
  forthright
  familiar
  fluid

- generally pretty good

Mechanics                      10          8
  grammar
  usage
  punctuation
  spelling

- generally very good.  Could use some copyediting for usage.


Figures and Tables             10          8
  judiciousness
  each discussed in text

- well labeled and captioned
- not always mentioned in the text

Appendix/es                    10          5
  judiciousness
  organization
  crossref'd from text

- no appxs

- tables and figs break up text a bit.  A better strategy would be to
  use only a couple talbes and figs in the main text and save the rest
  for an appx

TOTAL                         100        85

OVERALL COMMENTS:

Nice job on a hard project, made harder by the late arrival of data.
I thought your exploratory analyses were nice and your general comments
on panel survey design were useful.

In their comments on the project, Judy and Christian are clearly very
pleased to have worked with you, but also somewhat disappointed that
not so much work was done on a deeper analysis of what makes alumni 
"active", nor on simulating survey data from the existing data set
to explore methodology for panel survey in the future.  

You probably didn't have time for all this, but staying in better
contact with Judy and Christian in the second half of the semester
would have allowed you to focus more on the things that were of urgent
interest to them (maybe you would have worked more on 'active alumni' 
and simulated survey results, than EDA, for example).

Judy and Christian are interested in someone taking this project further
as an ADA project.  If you know anyone who would be interested in this, 
(including you!), please let me know.