Do Jobs & Sports Affect Grades?

Ali Crowder, Amanda Stople, and Samantha McKee

Group D7
EDT 180D
Gary Lewallen
April 26thth, 2017
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Do Sports and Jobs Affect Grades

Survey Questions

Introduction:

The topic our group researched was: Do Jobs & Sports Affect Grades? The questions our
group asked in our survey were, 1. What grade are you in? 2. What is your gender? 3. Do
you play a sport/have a job or not? 4. What is your GPA if you play a sport and/or have a
job? 5. What is your gender based on if you play a sport and/or have a job or not? 6.
What is your gender and GPA if you play a sport/have a job or not? 7. What is the
average GPA? 8. How many hours do you spend doing homework a week? 9. How many
hours do you spend playing a sport and/or working a job a week? The tool our group used
to collect the date was Google Docs Form. We then used Microsoft Excel to organize and
graph the data that was given to us from our survey. The total amount of responses we
received from the survey was 127.

What grade are you in?

To start out our survey, we asked respondents to answer some general demographic
questions. When asking the respondents what grade they are in, they could chose between
freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. There were a total of 127 respondents that took
the survey. Freshman was the grade that had the highest number of people that took the
survey, 66 out of 127. The sophomore class was the second highest, there were 29
respondents out of 127. The junior class was third and there were 24 out of 127
respondents. Lastly, the senior class only had 8 respondents out of 127.

Total Respondents by grade

Respondemts 150
100
50
0
1

Grade

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

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What is your gender?

In our next graph, we asked respondents what gender they were. When asking the
respondents their gender, they were able to choose between male and female. There were
a total of 127 respondents that took the survey and only two options. According to the
survey results, there were much more female respondents that participated than male
respondents. Female was the gender that had the highest number of people that took the
survey, 95 out of 127. The male class was the second highest there were 32 out of 127.
The end result from the graph was that there were more female than male respondents
that took the survey.

Total respondents by gender

100
90
80
70
60
Respondents 50
40
30
20
10
0
Male Female

Gender

Do you Play a Sport/ have a Job or not?

In this graph, we asked respondents if they played a sport or had a job. When asking the
respondents if they played a sport or had a job, they were able to choose between yes or
no, yes I played a sport/ have a job or no, I do not do either. There were a total of 127
respondents that took the survey and only two options. According to the surveys results,
there were much more people who played a sport/ had a job that took the survey.
According to the graph and our findings, 77 people out of the 127 respondents had a job
and/or played a sport. The percentage of the respondents who had a job and/or played a
sport was 61%. According to the graph and our findings, 50 people out of the 127
respondents did not have a job and/or play a sport. The percentage of the respondents
who did not have a job and/or play a sport was 39%.
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Do you play a sport or have a job?

Yes
50; 39%
No
77; 61%

What is your GPA if you Play a Sport and/or Have a Job or not?

In our next graph, we asked respondents what their GPA was if they answered yes to the
previous question: Do you play a sport/ have a job? When asking the respondents what
their GPA was, they were able to put in their own, desired number. This is the GPAs only
of people who played a sport/ have a job and who did not. The result of this was, the
people who did not play a sport or have a job had significantly higher GPAs. The people
who did not have a job or play a sport had an average GPA of 3.29 compared to those
who do play a sport/have a job with an average GPA of 3.17. The end result clearly
stating that having a job/playing a sport negatively affects your GPA.

GPA if you play a sport and/or have a job or not

3.30
3.28
3.26
3.24
3.22
GPA 3.20
3.18
3.16
3.14
3.12
3.10
Yes No

Answer
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What is your gender based on if you Play a Sport and/or Have a Job or not?

In our next graph, we asked respondents what their gender was if they had answered yes
to the question: Do you play a sport/ have a job? We asked the respondents who was male
and who was female, and following that, do you play a sport and/or have a job? Based
off of our results the majority of female respondents played a sport/had a job. There were
58 out of 127 female respondents who did play a sport/have a job and 19 out of 127
males who did have a job/play a sport. Based off of our results the majority of female
respondents also did not played a sport/had a job. There were 37 out of 127 female
respondents who did not play a sport/ job and there were 13 out of 127 male respondents
who did not have a job/play a sport. Based off of the whole graph, the female
respondents dominated the male respondents in each category: playing a sport/having a
job and not playing a sport/having a job.

Gender based off if you play a sport and/or have a job or not
70
60
50
40
number of respondents 30
20
10
0
Yes No

Gender

Male Female

What is your gender and GPA if you Play a Sport/Have a Job or not?

In our final graph we asked respondents if they played a sport or had a job and what their
GPA and gender was. There were many components to this question, first we asked them
if they played a sport or had a job- that was a yes or no question, next what gender they
were, and finally, the respondents typed in their GPA. The male respondents primarily
did not play a sport/have a job whereas the females did. The male respondents who did
not play a sport/ have a job had an average GPA of 3.4 where as the female respondents
had an average GPA of 3.25. The female respondents who did have a job/play a sport had
an average GPA of 3.19 where as to the male respondents had an average GPA of 3.13.
The overall result was that both the male and female respondents had a higher GPA when
they did not have a job/play a sport.
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Gender and GPA if you play a sport and/or have a job or not

Female GPA

Gender

Male GPA

2.95 3.00 3.05 3.10 3.15 3.20 3.25 3.30 3.35 3.40 3.45

number of respondents

Yes No

What is the average GPA?

To start out our first table of our survey, we asked respondent what their GPA was. When
asking the respondents what their GPA was, they were able to put in their own, desired
number. There was a total of 127 respondents that took the survey. In the table, there
were five different topics covered, which were average, mode, median, minimum, and
maximum. The average GPA of the male and female respondents was a 3.22. The GPA
mode of the male and female respondents was a 3.0. The GPA median of the male and
female respondents was a 3.2. The GPA minimum of the male and female respondents
was a 1.0. Finally, the GPA maximum of the male and female respondents was a 4.25.
The overall result of the table shows that the range of GPA was from a 1.0 to a 4.25,
concluding that the average GPA was a 3.22.

What is your GPA?

Average 3.22
Mode 3
Median 3.2
Minimum 1
Maximum 4.25

How many hours do you spend doing homework a week?

Our next table from our survey, we asked respondents how many hours they spend doing
homework on average. When asking the respondents how many hours they spend doing
homework, they were able to put in their own, desired number. There was a total of 127
respondents that took the survey. In the table, there were five different topics covered,
which were average, mode, median, minimum, and maximum. The average hours of
homework the male and female respondents did averaged out to 10.53 hours. The mode
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of the male and female respondents who did homework was 6 hours. The median of the
male and female respondents who did homework was 8 hours. The minimum of the male
and female respondents who did homework was 1 hour. Finally, the maximum of the
male and female respondents who did homework was 45 hours a week. The overall result
of the table shows that the range of hours of homework the male and female respondents
did was from 1 hour to 45 hours, concluding that the average number of hours the male
and female respondents did homework was 10.53 hours a week.

How many hours do you spend doing

homework a week?
Average 10.53
Mode 6
Median 8
Minimum 1
Maximum 45

How many hours do you spend playing a sport and/or having a job a week?

In our final table of our survey, we asked respondents how many hours they spend
playing a sport/ working at a job. When asking the respondents how many hours they
spend playing a sport and/or working at a job, they were able to put in their own, desired
number. There was a total of 127 respondents that took the survey. In the table, there
were five different topics covered, which were average, mode, median, minimum, and
maximum. The average hours of having a job and/or playing a sport the male and female
respondents did averaged out to 14.53 hours. The mode of the male and female
respondents who played a sport and/or had a job was 0 hours. The median of the male
and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport was 14 hours. The minimum
of the male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport was 0 hours.
Finally, the maximum of the male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a
sport was 70 hours a week. The overall result of the table shows that the range of hours of
male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport was from 0 hours to 70
hours, concluding that the average number of hours the male and female respondents had
a job and/or played a sport was 14.53 hours a week.

How many hours do you spend playing a

sport and/or having a job a week?
Average 14.53
Mode 0
Median 14
Minimum 0
Maximum 70

Conclusion:
After looking at all of the data collected from our various survey questions, a few things
became very clear and apparent. The most common demographic of people who took the
survey was freshman girls, according to our data. The majority of the people who took
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the survey had also played a sport/ had a job. With that information, it was very clear that
yes, playing a sport/working a job does negatively affect students GPAs. According to
our data and graphs, the average GPA of students who do play sports/have a job is 3.17.
The GPA of students who do not work a job/play a sport is 3.29. Therefore, it is evident
that playing a sport/having a job negatively affects students GPAs seeing as how doing
so lessens students GPAs on average by .12. The students who did in fact played a
sport/working a job, spent an average of 14 hours on it per week. The average time
students reported they spend doing homework, regardless if they have a job/play a sport
or not, is ten hours. Adding those up, that does not leave a lot of time for the students
with jobs/after school sports to spend doing work and going to class. This could be why
their GPA is lessened.