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Student Dedication to School

Student Dedication to School. Giselle Jacob & Allison Kelly Roth Precal2-Statistics Project. Hypothesis. Statement: If students participate in school-related extra-curricular activities, then they will be less likely to fall asleep in class, because they will feel more connected to school.

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Student Dedication to School

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  1. Student Dedication to School Giselle Jacob & Allison Kelly Roth Precal2-Statistics Project

  2. Hypothesis • Statement: If students participate in school-related extra-curricular activities, then they will be less likely to fall asleep in class, because they will feel more connected to school. • Context: This issue is important because it can validate a strategy of increasing student participation and attention.

  3. Supporting Research • http://www.ehow.com/info_7933676_extracurricular-vs-school-activities.html This article states that extra curricular activities can improve classroom performance. • http://escholarshare.drake.edu/bitstream/handle/2092/453/dt1994jwo001.pdf?sequence=1 “There is a significant difference between the grade point averages of those involved in extracurricular activities and those not involved in extracurricular activities.”

  4. Survey Design I • We manually surveyed 50 different classmates from two of our classes: Pre-calculus and Astronomy. • We did not use technology during the data collection process. • It was difficult to be truly random because we used convenience sampling.

  5. Survey Design II • We used unbiased questions: • How many times do you fall asleep in any of your classes per week? • How many hours per week do you spend doing extra-curricular activities with or through school? • On average, what percentage of the school week do you spend fully paying attention and participating in class?

  6. Statistical Analysis I In-Class Sleeping w/o Extra-Curriculars In-Class Sleeping w/ Extra-Curriculars

  7. Statistical Analysis II

  8. Statistical Analysis III • Our confidence level for people sleeping in class who do not do any extra curricular activities with or through school is: (7.42)/(23^.5) = 1.5 6.22 + 1.5 confidence • Our confidence level for people who do participate in extra curricular activities with or through school is… (4.79)/(27^.5) =0.92 3.48 + .92 confidence

  9. Conclusion I • Our results are inconclusive. Our data does not clearly show that participation in school based extra-curricular activities improves attention and lack of sleeping in class. • However is does not show that participation in such activities hinders focus and amount of sleeping. We believe that if we changed our survey and our sample size that we could find more conclusive results.

  10. Conclusion II • Our sampling method could have caused bias because we asked people face to face and only people in two classes. This could have skewed our data if people felt uncomfortable answering. • Also, people could have lied or over exaggerated their answers, resulting in improper data. • However, we did see some trends showing that those who participated in extra-curricular activities slept less often in class showing that school activities could affect attention in class.

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