The students in my Senior Seminar course on Media and Politics conducted poll about student engagement at Luther College. Below are the results.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!
1 Comment
2/11/2018 10:49:39 am
Thank you for sharing the results of your research. This will help us with our study. There are different activities in school that the students can engage in. I just hope that there will be more studies like this. Students should be able to know to manage their time to succeed in their program. There are a lot of extra-curricular activities that can help us improve our skills but we should not forget that we should study hard for our academics.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Student WorkSharing student assignments that should reach more people than just me. Archives
August 2020
Categories
All
|