1. Social Media in Schools
Bailey M. Lala V. Aaliyah L. Tony U.

2. How does social media affect your education?
BIG PICTURE QUESTION:
How does social media affect your education?

3. We believe that social media is a distraction to education.
HYPOTHESIS:
We believe that social media is a distraction to education.

4. POPULATION OF INTEREST:
The population of interest we used while conducting our surveys, was the students here at Akins High School.

5. HOW WE APPLIED ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES TO OUR STUDY:
What we took from the belmont report to protect our participants was confidentiality, respect, and consent. To ensure this all of our participants were kindly asked to participate, they were all informed and aware of how participating affected them in any ways positively or negatively, they allowed for us to use the information given, and all remain anonymous.

6. WHAT IS BEING STUDIED? WHY?
What is being studied is the affect social media has within our education system. We decided to do this study because we wanted to see if social media has more of a positive or negative effect on education with akins students. We wanted to see if the “no cellphone” rule really does any difference in our students academic performance.

7. OUR SURVEY: How many classes do you have? (Quantitative)
How many hours a day do you spend on your phone? (Quantitative)
How many hours a day do you spend doing your homework? (Quantitative)
Are you passing all of your classes? (Categorical)
Are your classes difficult? (Categorical) ( Could result in statistical bias because a student could dislike a teacher. Only based on opinion.)
Do you believe that social media helps or hurt your education? (Categorical) (Could result in statistical bias because this is strictly opinion based not facts.)
Do you use social media for your education? (Categorical)

8. SAMPLING METHOD:
We used both random simple sampling and convenience sampling while surveying. The random sampling was done with the random number generator on the calculator. We went into 3 classrooms and numbered the table groups and put the amount of groups into the generator and whichever group was chosen everyone at the table got a survey. With the convenience sampling, we asked different student we would encounter while walking in the hallways between switching classrooms. We feel this worked best for us because it was an easy way to quickly gather our surveys and didn’t really apply any sampling bias. However it could’ve occurred with the convenience sampling by picking and choosing who to ask in the hallway.

9. RESULTS: Yes 22 (About 73%) No 8 (About 27%)
*A pie graph was the best for this data because it was a categorical question. It was a yes or no question.

10. How many hours a day do you spend on your phone?
RESULTS:
Min- 0
Q1- 3
Median- 5
Q3- 12
Max-24
Data:
0,0,1.5,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,6,10,10,12,12,12,13,14,14,14,20,24,24.
*The boxplot was best for this question because it was quantitative question that resulted in a range of numbers.

11. RESULTS: Hurt= 14 Help= 10 Both= 6
*A bar graph fit best for the results of this question because it only had 3 different answer choices.

12. How many classes do you have?
RESULTS:
8 classes = 24 students
7 classes= 3 students
6 classes= 3 students
*The histogram fit best for the results of this question because most people had 6, 7, or 8 classes.

13. Results:
Yes- 15
No- 12
Some- 3
Yes (50%) No (40%) Some(10%)

14. HOW MANY HOURS A DAY DO YOU SPEND DOING HOMEWORK?
RESULTS:
0 hours - 9 students
½ an hour-2 students
1 hour - 9 students
1 ½ hours - 1 student
2 hours - 5 students
3 hours - 4 students
4 hours - 1 student
*We chose a dotplot to organize our data because it was an open question with many answers.

15. TECHNICAL REPORT:
Social media a distraction to our students’ education? A recent study shows social media is making a negative impact in schools. Students are spending more time on social media and less time focusing on their education.
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16. INFORMAL REPORT:
In the end we concluded our hypothesis was somewhat right. Based off the information we collected, we decided our results were inconclusive. We were surprised on how honest our participants were with some of their responses and how much thought they put into them. The data we captured is useful information because it opens the eyes of students and how much more time they’re putting into social media and how it is affecting them. The information can be useful to not only the students in in our school system, but as well as our administration. It gives them data to back up their reasoning on why they don't allow cellphones in classrooms. The positive effects that resulted from our research could be useful to the student body to help fight for cell phones in class.