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Does the Number of activities affect the
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They say that students who are involved in school activites are
more likey to do better academically in school. There are
students who are not invloved and actually do good too. But do
students, whether in any activites or not, miss many days of
school?
I was curious if students
who were involved in any student activities would be absent as
often as studnets who are not. I know many students who are
invloved and most have only missed a day of school throught the
four years of high school! But what about the students who are
not invloved. I also know many who really arent that into any
activites and they show up to school everyday.Since students must
be in school to do well academically, I want to see if the number
of activities a students involved in affect the number of times
they are absent from school. To see if students who are involved
more, are absent less and if students who are not involved are
absent often. I surveryed the students at North Olmsted High
School from grades 9-12, and I even wrote down if they were male
or female.But that did not really make a diffrence in my study
since I was not even looking at the diffrence that made in my study.
On the survery I put three questions. I first asked if they were male
or female. Then I asked them to circle the number of activities they may
be in, and that includes sports, academic teams, clubs,etc. Lastly, I asked
if they could circle the number of days they missed from school.After plugging
in all the data in Minitab, I saw the diffrence between males and females. But
I was focusing more on if there the number of activites a student was invloved in
affected if they were out from school often. I did a Line
Regression test on my data. There is a weak linear realationship
with my data. The graphs also show that there is no linear
relationship with the number of activites and the number of
absences. Even when I took out the outlier, which was 26
absences, there was still no linear relationship. I received 43%
of the surverys back. There was alot of non-respone bias with
the study so basically 57% of the study was non-resposnse.The
confounding varibles could be that the student has some health
problems so they could be a reason they may not play any sports
or be in any activites that require them to be physical. Then
there are students who have a lack of motivation.I can
extrapolate my results to a broader population.The population of
the study all the schools in NorthEast Ohio and survery students
from 9-12th grades.I could have sent out more than 100 surverys
to the students, maybe I would have got more back. Then I could
have put more questions on the survery, making the study much
broader. I may have put a question saying that if the person
says no for not being in any student activities, would they more
likely be absent as often then they did when they were not in
any. Instead of just seeing if absences affect activites, I
could have seen if grade or gender affected them instead.
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