Student Engagement

The students in my Senior Seminar course on Media and Politics conducted  poll about student engagement at Luther College. Below are the results.

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Brief Analysis of Data
    Last month, NORP conducted an in-person survey about the level of involvement students at Luther have with various organizations, athletics, and musical groups. In total, 282 Luther students were surveyed, with samples from each grade and gender. In order to better compile our results, we developed three categories: student organizations (Greek Life, Student Senate, SAC, etc.), athletics, and musical ensembles. Each student that was surveyed was not only asked how many organizations, sports, or music ensembles they participate in, but they were also asked which particular group they spend the most time in and how many hours of their week they devote to each group.
Hours Involved
Means (average hours)
    Female: 9.23 hours involved
    Male: 10.34 hours involved
    Both: 9.60 hours involved
Medians (middle number of hours when put in order from greatest to least)
    Female: 7 hours
    Male: 10 hours
    Both: 8 hours
Modes (most common number of hours)
    Female: 10 hours
    Male: 2 hours
    Both: 10 hours

Activities Involved In
Mean (average number of activities)
    Women: 2.843 activities
    Men: 2.843 activities
Both: 2.807 activities
Median:
    Women: 3 activities
    Men: 3 activities
Both: 3 activities
Mode:
    Women: 2 activities
    Men 2 activities
    Both: 2 activities

Breakdown of groups:
Due to students being able to write down which activities they spend the most time in, some answers fell into more than one group. In the spirit of inclusivity, we have decided to mark students as mainly involved in more than one category. This means the percentages will NOT add up to 100 percent.
Music: 104 students
        36.76%
    Sports/Athletics: 73 students
        26.80%
    Student orgs: 68 students
        24.03%
Average Hours involved in Extracurriculars
The averages are calculated with the mean of the data, which is presented below:

Average Mean based on Category:
Total Mean- 9.6 hours
Female Mean- 9.23 hours
Male Mean- 10.34 hours
Music Focused Mean- 8.48 hours
Sport/Athletic Focused Mean- 15.86 hours
Organization Focused Mean- 6.46 hours

Average Hours involved in Extracurriculars
The following data is calculated by finding the median, first quartile, and second quartile of the data:

Findings:
Luther students pride themselves on their level of involvement in a variety of different student groups. We created this survey in order to find out if Luther students are as involved as they claim to be, which grade and/or gender is the most involved, and if there were changes in the levels of involvement between the freshman and senior years of college. There are a variety of ways to breakdown our findings and compare them with our sample groups to draw various conclusions about the level of involvement particular people at Luther have. For example, our findings show that more females are involved in music than males, however more males are involved in athletics compared to females.
These results represent the information collected from our survey in the Cafeteria. Keep in mind that these numbers are not the exact numbers from all students currently attending Luther. These numbers are projections based off of our sample of over 10% of students. If you have any comments about the survey results or polling method, feel free to post your comments and questions on our Facebook page. Thank you to all of those that volunteered their time to fill out our survey!