Purpose
The new building is not the only change for the studetns at NOHS, we now
have a new student ID system. The system,
Scholarchip, is causing a little bit of a
controversy throughout the school. Some thinking
it disrubts class time, while on the other hand
it keeps us safe by knowing where we are at all
times. (well except when we aren't clocked in
anywhere) Based on these arguments we decided to
see if having the ID's are making a difference
based on if students actually wear them.
abstract
Our study was focused on the hypothesis that the students at North Olmsted High school were more likely to wear their IDs more at the beginning of the day than near the end of the day. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an observational study four times a day for three days in order to have enough data to come up with a valid conclusion
We conducted our study on the 16th, the 18th, and the 29th of April. For each day, we collected data in the mornings from 7am to 8am, as well as during 4th, 5th, and 6th period lunch. The proportion we created was based on whether or not the student physically was wearing their ID around their neck or not. Our plan for collecting data in the morning never changed. We arrived before 7am each morning and at the hour we would begin to tally which students actually had their IDs around their neck.
Originally in the afternoon, we planned on watching students as they came in the lunchroom doors. This turned out to be much more difficult than we originally imagined since there were so many students coming in or through the lunchroom doors at one time. We decided to change our way of collecting data in order to keep the integrity of the data. We decided instead, we would sweep the lunchroom 10 minutes after the bell and tally the proportion of students who were actually wearing their IDs that way. It turned out to be a lot.
more effective than our original plan.
After collecting our data, we ran our hypothesis test and came up with a p-value of .003. This meant that we were able to reject the null hypothesis at the .1 and .05 levels of significance. This meant that the proportion of student who were actually wearing their IDs around their necks in mornings was larger than the proportion of students actually wearing their IDs in the afternoon.