Effect of Peer Pressure on Academic Performance
Student Researchers: carlos acosta priya dames miranda dunn anissia ennis Amanda wade Introduction Our interests were with elementary school-agedstudents, but given the need to protect them frompotentially harmful survey questions, we wereredirected to our peer group. We started out with more than 10 ideas after abrainstorming (divergent thinking) session. We narrowed down those 10 ideas into 4 specificquestions eliminating technology, historical figures,and television and subject preference, to selectpeer pressure using the Hits and Highlights(convergent thinking) technique. What is peer pressure? good, get this in there witha citation! Study Purpose To determine whether or peer pressurenegatively affects FAU 9th graders grades. isthis the wall text? If not, please use the wall text,if so, lets clean this up. Select Literature Review
One bullet per article Article Conceptual Framework Polk (1971) stated that adolescents with a relatively high peerorientation are more likely to be involved in juvenile delinquency. Also, Stone (1979) stated that these same adolescents are likely tobe involved in the use of illegal drugs. These studies demonstrate that peer pressure has a negative effecton teenagers. Based on Polk and Stones findings, this study assumes that theopposite will also be found; that students who do not give in to peerpressure will not be engaged in problem behaviors and willdemonstrate high academic performance. It is through this framework that the data from this study wasanalyzed. Conceptual Framework If Polk and Stone are accurate, then peer pressure will likely also impact student performance By not giving-in to peer pressure it is expected that students will not engage in problematic behavior and will have high academic performance. We also wanted to know why students might be more oriented to give-in to peer pressure. Research Question(s) Take directly from the classroom wall! Research Design This study used a (quant or qual) and why? Sampling
Data collection Approval process Timeline Methods We sent out a survey viato every 9th grade student attendingFAU High School. Data Cleaning Data Organization Data Transformation Data Analysis Methods Survey Questions:
1. What would you do if your friend told you to ignore someone just becausethey didn't like them? 2. If a classmate told you to steal something from someone else, what wouldyou do? 3. If a friend told you to stop wearing an outfit just because they didn't like it,what would you do? 4. What would you do if you are at a party and your friend asks you to try anillegal drug (including alcohol)? 5. Have you ever given in to peer pressure? If so, what happened? 6. What is your overall GPA (grade point average) at FAU High School asreported on your first progress report? (if you are not sure, please estimate yourcurrent overall GPA) 7. What is your gender? 8. Which race/ethnicity best describes you? Findings Frequency Table has layout problems
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