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Group c3 Report
Group c3 Report
Professor Lewallen
4/18/17
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Introduction
We decided to research how much it affects a students performance with the number of courses
they take. The questions we asked were their gender, their age, what grade theyre in, how many
classes they are taking, how many credits they are taking, how many of each level class they are
taking (100 to 400), and their GPA. We hope to see if there is a connection by comparing the
GPA figures to the classes and seeing if the more classes they are taking may be hurting them in
the end. We used Google Forms to make it into a survey so we can have them answered, and we
used Google Sheets to transfer the answers. From the time of reporting we got 127 answers.
Discussion
This chart is to roughly show how many credits are taken by each university level. A majority
seem to be in the middle with them taking between 14 and 17 credits. There are some mad
enough to be taking 21 to 24 credits but after 14 to 17 credits the next most popular one is 10 to
13 credits. Freshmen dominate most of these charts as they are the most in nearly every bar
comparison besides the 1 to 9 and 21 to 24. That does mean that many of the students who
responded are taking a reasonable amount of credits so it should be easier to see, on average,
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This chart is to see how many students of a certain class level are of a specific gender. As shown
many of the students who took this survey are freshman women. Not many seniors of either
gender took this survey and in every case, there were more female responders of each university
level than there were of males. That will change what our group is looking for as a 50/50 split
was expected. That does not damage the research question too much but it is still interesting to
know that for the most part this will show how stressed female university goers are. Along with
that, and as stated before, many of these responders are freshman so it shifts it even more as the
group will mostly see how stressed freshman are, as not many of other university levels
responded.
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This is the beginning of a set of charts that is meant to show how many students are taking how
many specific classes of a specific level, in this case the 100 level. The chart is dominated by
mostly freshmen and sophomores. Many freshman are most likely new as they are taking many
100 level classes. For those of lower numbers they might be taking higher level classes, which is
quite adventurous of them. In fact, there is one who is taking seven 100 level classes and another
taking six. Many juniors are also taking a 100-level course but from there it drops as many are
most likely trying to take classes they missed earlier on while also taking the upper level courses
they need.
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This chart is to show how many students are taking 200 level classes and how many classes of
that level they are taking. As one can see there are many freshman in this chart as the majority
are taking one two or three 200 level classes. They outnumber the other bars with sophomore in
second, junior in thirds and sophomore in last. This is quite reasonable as 200 level classes are
more specific and many freshman may want to take the plunge to see if their major is for them
by taking related classes. There are still 20 freshmen who are taking no 200 level classes but the
first chart shows that many of them are taking 100 level classes.
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This chart, like the previous two, is to show how many students of a certain university level are
taking 300 level classes and how many they are taking. There is a majority juniors taking 300
level classes while only a few freshmen are daring to take a 300-level class. They are also spread
out along the graph and it is shown that a sophomore is taking the most 300 level classes, nine,
while for seniors it is only at 5. Again, it seems that sophomores are trying their hardest by
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The chart below is to show how many people of each university level are taking 400 level classes
and how many classes of that level they are taking. There is a large amount of people who are
not taking 400 level classes, such as freshman, but that also means that there is a lack of other
students taking those classes. As shown there are very little seniors or juniors who are taking the
class. It is their final year and it seems like there should be more students as they advance in their
majors and go into more specifics. The freshman drop out quickly in the chart while the juniors
have the smoothest transition but it is still cut short. Only one sophomore is shown taking six 400
level classes while there is one senior taking 5 and the majority taking zero.
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When comparing the average GPAs from each class level with the amount of credits that are
being taken the results that we received were expected. The freshmen received higher GPAs due
to the lower intensity of the class levels. But also, there were 66 freshmen which were the largest
class from everyone else, so that is another reason why the difference was so large.
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Analysis
When we observed our data, the conclusion we came up with is that it doesnt really matter the
number of classes someone takes, but instead its the amount of course levels they take. For
example, most freshmen are taking 100 and 200 course level classes which are prone to being
easier and less stressful compared to the juniors and seniors who are taking upper division
courses. Which is why in the GPA chart we see that freshmen have a higher GPA. A question we
came up with throughout the research was how stressful is it for an upper classmate with their
courses, just because we had a lot of freshmen orientated. If we were to do this all over again,
we would try to get a more diverse crowd so that we can see how other grade levels are effected