Does School Uniform Change Different Aged Children’s Behavior? BySai

Why I did this research I wanted to find out what effects school uniform gives to different aged children in their daily school life. Does wearing school uniform change the way a child’s attitude and behavior currently is? I also wanted to find out whether children prefer school uniform or not. I wondered whether wearing clothing of their own choice would make any difference to children at school.

How I did my research To find out the answer to my research question, I sent out a questionnaire. I did this to find out how children of different ages felt about school uniform, changing the design of it or even removing it. I sent out my questionnaire to children in Year 4 aged around 9 in Oxley Park Primary School and children in year 8 aged around 13 in Hazely School to get a good comparison between to ages.

What I found out – Question 1 The degree of Agreement is the way the children marked their answer in my questionnaire. It is scale of 1 to is strongly disagree, 10 means strongly agree, and 5 means in the middle. The number of children represent the amount of children who chose the number in the scale. The results to this question show that most year 8 children don’t like wearing school uniform whereas most year 4 children say they do.

Question 2 On question 2 most year 4 and year 8 children agree that school uniform should be comfortable.

Question 3 On this question, most year 4 and year 8 children agree that school uniform should be designed by children. Quite a few year 4 and year 8 children also disagree with school uniform being designed by children.

Question 4 On question 4 most year 4 children agree that teachers should where school uniform but on the other hand most year 8 children disagree with wearing school uniform.

Question 5 On this question most year 4 children agree that school uniform should be comfortable but most year 8 children rated number 5 on the scale of 1 to 10.

Question 6 On question 6 most year 4 children disagree that school ties should be banned whereas most year 8 children rated 5 on the scale again.

Question 7 Most year 4 and year 8 children disagree with school blazers being banned.

Question 8 On this question most year 4 and year 8 children disagree that school uniform should be worn everyday.

Question 9 Most year 4 and 8 children on this question disagree with school uniform being worn on all school trips. But quite a few year 4 children also disagreed.

Question 10 Most year 4 and year 8 disagree that they work best when wearing school uniform.

Question 11 Most year 4 and year 8 children agree that they work more creatively in their own clothes.

Question 12 Most year 4 children disagree that they work harder when wearing school uniform whereas most year 8 children marked 5 on the scale.

Question 13 Most year 4 and year 8 children agree that they can’t wait to get their school uniform off when they get home.

Question 14 Most year 4 and year 8 children disagree that they love their uniform so much they wear it at the weekends.

Question 15 Most year 8 children think that children should start wearing school uniform at the age of 15 and most year 4 children think that children should start wearing school uniform at the age of 5.

Question 16 Most year 4 and year 8 children agree that they should not have to wear school uniform at all.

Question 17 Most year 4 and year 8 children strongly agree that they feel more confident in their own clothes.

Conclusions After I received my results from the two year groups, I analyzed the data I received and came to a conclusion. The data that I have, proves that most year 4 children think that school uniform is not too bad but would like to make a few changes to it but on the other hand, most year 8 children do not like school uniform much at all.