Extracurricular Activities and Their Effect on the Student\'s Grade Point Averag

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Extracurricular Activities and Their Effect on the Student's Grade Point Average: Statistical Study

Bakoban, R. A.; Aljarallah, S. A.

Educational Research and Reviews, v10 n20 p2737-2744 Oct 2015

Extracurricular activities (ECA) are part of students' everyday life; they play important roles in students' lives. Few studies have addressed the question of how student engagements to ECA affect student's grade point average (GPA). This research was conducted to know whether the students' grade point average in King Abdulaziz University, Faisaliah campus is affected by their participation in the ECA. This study also studied the students' satisfaction on ECA. The study sample includes 239 students chosen via simple random sampling method. The study used inferential statistics to analyze this study design. To achieve the purpose of this study, a questionnaire (comprising 19 questions) was designed. The results showed that participation in ECA affects the students' GPA in a positive way. The study found that those who participated in ECA have higher GPA than those who did not; the study also found that the time spent participating in ECA did not affect the time students usually spend on studying (the result showed there wasn't any relationship between them). Furthermore, the study showed that students, based on faculty, are generally satisfied with the available extracurricular activities in the campus.

I need to critique article (Extracurricular Activities and their effect on the students grade point average: statistical study) and answer this questions.

1. Introduction to paper

2. For this article describe problem researcher is examining.

3. What is the hypothesis for this article? For this article explain the null and alternative hypothesis.

4. What are the independent and dependent variablesfor this article?

5. What is the internal validity in the study for this article?

6. What was the composition of the sample selected for this article.   

7. What type of study is it, observational, experimental, ect for this article? Explain why.

8. What type of statistics was used in study, what are the results for this article?

9. Where the results significant, at what level significant for this article?

10. What implications do the results have in this article? What type of external validity was found in study in this article ?

Explanation / Answer

2. The problem is how students' engagement to ECa affects students' GPA.

3. H0: ECA and GPA are independent.

H1:ECA and GPA are dependent.

4. Independent variable: ECA and dependnet variable: GPA.

7. This is an experimental study as random sampling method has been used during sample selection and then survey was conducted and data were analysed using statistical tools. Based on which significant relationship is established among variables.

8. Chi-sqaure test for association is used to obtain results. The study showed students who participate in ECA have higher GPA and time spent on participating in ECA donot affect tim espent on studying.

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