Sports and Growth

Survey research, a nonexperimental design will be used for this study. While the experimental design allows for the control over variables and threats to validity, and the nonexperimental design does not, both yield empirical results. Empirical research includes the collection of data and the analysis of the data to answer a research question and/or hypothesis. The survey design is a method used to gather scientific information related to a topic, such the perceived benefits of high school sports on amounts of academic study time (study habits) and academic goals. Quantitative and qualitative data will be gathered from the study survey.

For this study a questionnaire will be designed to determine how high school student athletes rate their academic goals

. . .
entification as an athlete): 15. Please rate the degree that you perceive yourself as an athlete on a scale from one to five, with five being the greatest degree of athletic identity: ____ For this section the participant also provides a numeric response in hours, to the following questions: 16. How much time per day do you spend in athletic activities? 17. How much time per week do you spend in athletic activities? 18. How much time per month do you spend in athletic activities? 19. If you were to average the amount of time you spend in athletic activities for the entire semester, how much time per week would that be? Part III provides open-ended questions that allow the students to further reflect on the topic and provide information related to the research questions. Questions are as follows: 20. Are the academic benefits of participating in high school sports? What are they? 21. Do you think high school sports participation affects your study habits? How? What type of homework do you spend time doing? Does participation in high school sports affect your choice of homework type? Does participation in high school sports affect the amount of time you spend doing homework? 22. Do you
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
Male Female, Hispanic Asian, Karl Pearson, Study Survey, Procedures Data, Procedures Introduction, Analysis Descriptive, Goals Questionnaire, Population Subjects, academic goals, school sports, academic study, school athletes, positive academic, athletic participation, positive academic goals, school sports participation, athletic identity, benefits school, sports participation, benefits school sports, spend doing, school athletes regarding, spend doing homework, Study Academic,
Approximate Word count = 2068
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)