Do Jobs & Sports Affect

Grades?
Ali Crowder, Amanda Stolpe, and Samantha McKee
Group D7
EDT 180D
Gary Lewallen
April 18th, 2017

 Introduction:
The topic our group researched was: Do Jobs & Sports Affect
Grades? The questions our group asked in our survey were,
1. What grade are you in? 2. What is your gender? 3. Do you
play a sport/Have a Job or not? 4. What is your GPA if you
Play a Sport and/or Have a Job or not? 5. What is your gender
based on if you Play a Sport and/or Have a Job or not? 6.
What is your gender and GPA if you Play a Sport/Have a Job
or not? 7. What is the average GPA? 8. How many hours do
you spend doing homework a week? 9. How many hours do
you spend Playing a Sport and/or Having a Job a week? The
tool our group used to collect the date was Google Docs
Form. We then used Microsoft Excel to organize and graph
the data that was given to us from our survey. The amount of
responses we received from the survey was 127.
 Survey Questions
What grade are you in?
To start out our survey, we asked Total Respondents by grade
respondents to answer some general
demographic questions. When asking
the respondents what grade they are in,
140
they could chose between freshman,
sophomore, junior, and senior. There 120

were a total of 127 respondents that 100

took the survey. Freshman was the Respondemts 80
grade that had the highest number of
people that took the survey, 66 out of 60

127. The sophomore class was the 40

second highest, there were 29 20

respondents out of 127. The junior class
0
was third and there were 24 out of 127 1

respondents. Lastly, the senior class Grade

only had 8 respondents out of 127.
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
 Survey Question 2
What is your gender?
In our next graph, we asked respondents Total respondents by gender
what gender they were. When asking the 100
respondents what gender they are, they 90
were able to choose between male and
80
female. There were a total of 127
respondents that took the survey and 70

only two options. According to the 60

survey, there were much more female 50
Respondents
respondents that participated than male
40
respondents. Female was the gender
that had the highest number of people 30

that took the survey, 95 out of 127. The 20

male class was the second highest there 10
were 32 out of 127. The end result from
0
the graph was that there were more Male Female
female than male respondents that took Gender
the survey.
 Survey Question 3
Do you play a sport/ Have a Job or not?
In our next graph, we asked respondents if Do you play a sport or have a job?
they played a sport or had a job. When asking
the respondents if they played a sport or had
a job, they were able to choose between yes
or no, yes I played a sport/ have a job or no, I
do not do either. There were a total of 127
respondents that took the survey and only
Yes
two options. According to the survey, there 50; 39%
No
were much more people who played a sport/
77; 61%
had a job that took the survey. According to
the graph and our findings, 77 people out of
the 127 respondents had a job and/or played
a sport. The percentage of the respondents
who had a job and/or played a sport was 61%.
According to the graph and our findings, 50
people out of the 127 respondents did not
have a job and/or play a sport. The
percentage of the respondents who did not
have a job and/or play a sport was 39%.
 Survey Question 4
What is your GPA if you Play a Sport GPA if you play a sport and/or have a job or not
and/or Have a Job or not? 3.30

In our next graph, we asked respondents 3.28

what their GPA was if they answered yes 3.26
to the previous question: Do you play a
3.24
sport/ have a job? When asking the
respondents what their GPA was, they 3.22

were able to put in their own, desired GPA 3.20

number. This is the GPAs only of people 3.18
who played a sport/ have a job and who
3.16
did not. The result of this was, the people
who did not play a sport or have a job had 3.14

significantly higher GPAs. The people 3.12

who did not have a job or play a sport had 3.10

Yes No
an average GPA of 3.29 compared to
those who do play a sport/have a job with Answer

an average GPA of 3.17. The end result

clearly stating that having a job/playing a
sport negatively affects your GPA.
 Survey Question 5
What is your gender based on if you Play a
Sport and/or Have a Job or not? Gender based off if you play a sport and/or have a job or not
In our next graph, we asked respondents what 70
their gender was if they had answered yes to the
question: Do you play a sport/ have a job? We 60
asked the respondents who was male and who
was female, and following that, do you play a
50
sport and/or have a job? Based off of our results number of respondents
the majority of female respondents played a
40
sport/had a job. There were 58 out of 127 female
respondents who did play a sport/have a job and
30
19 out of 127 males who did have a job/play a
sport. Based off of our results the majority of
20
female respondents also did not played a
sport/had a job. There were 37 out of 127 female
respondents who did not play a sport/ job and 10

there were 13 out of 127 male respondents who

did not have a job/play a sport. Based off of the 0
GenderYes No
whole graph, the female respondents dominated
the male respondents in each category: playing a
sport/having a job and not playing a sport/having
a job. Male Female
 Survey Question 6
What is your gender and GPA if you Play a Gender and GPA if you play a sport and/or have a job or not
Sport/Have a Job or not?
In our final graph we asked respondents if they
played a sport or had a job and what their GPA
and gender was. There were many components Female GPA
to this question, first we asked them if they
played a sport or had a job- that was a yes or
no question, next what gender they were, and
finally, the respondents typed in their GPA. The Gender
male respondents primarily did not play a
sport/have a job whereas the females did. The
male respondents who did not play a sport/ Male GPA
have a job had an average GPA of 3.4 where as
the female respondents had an average GPA of
3.25. The female respondents who did have a
job/play a sport had an average GPA of 3.19 2.90 3.00 3.10 3.20 3.30 3.40 3.50
where as to the male respondents had an
number of respondents
average GPA of 3.13. The overall result was
that both the male and female respondents had
Yes No
a higher GPA when they did not have a job/play
a sport.
 Average GPA
What is the average GPA?
To start out our first table of our survey, we asked respondents to answer some general
demographic questions. When asking the respondents what their GPA was, they were
able to put in their own, desired number. There was a total of 127 respondents that took
the survey. In the table, there were five different topics covered, which were average,
mode, median, minimum, and maximum. The average GPA of the male and female
respondents was a 3.22. The GPA mode of the male and female respondents was a 3.0.
The GPA median of the male and female respondents was a 3.2. The GPA minimum of
the male and female respondents was a 1.0. Finally, the GPA maximum of the male and
female respondents was a 4.25. The overall result of the table shows that the range of
GPA was from a 1.0 to a 4.25, concluding that the average GPA was a 3.22.
 How many hours do you spend doing
homework a week?

Our next table of our survey, we asked respondents to answer some general demographic
questions. When asking the respondents how many hours they spend doing homework,
they were able to put in their own, desired number. There was a total of 127 respondents
that took the survey. In the table, there were five different topics covered, which were
average, mode, median, minimum, and maximum. The average hours of homework the
male and female respondents did averaged out to 10.53 hours. The mode of the male and
female respondents who did homework was 6 hours. The median of the male and female
respondents who did homework was 8 hours. The minimum of the male and female
respondents who did homework was 1 hour. Finally, the maximum of the male and female
respondents who did homework was 45 hours a week. The overall result of the table
shows that the range of hours of homework the male and female respondents did was
from 1 hour to 45 hours, concluding that the average number of hours the male and
female respondents did homework was 10.53 hours a week.
 How many hours do you spend
playing a sport and/or having a job
a week?
In our final table of our survey, we asked respondents to answer some general demographic
questions. When asking the respondents how many hours they spend playing a sport and/or
having a job, they were able to put in their own, desired number. There was a total of 127
respondents that took the survey. In the table, there were five different topics covered, which
were average, mode, median, minimum, and maximum. The average hours of having a job
and/or playing a sport the male and female respondents did averaged out to 14.53 hours. The
mode of the male and female respondents who played a sport and/or had a job was 0 hours.
The median of the male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport was 14
hours. The minimum of the male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport
was 0 hours. Finally, the maximum of the male and female respondents who had a job and/or
played a sport was 70 hours a week. The overall result of the table shows that the range of
hours of male and female respondents who had a job and/or played a sport was from 0 hours
to 70 hours, concluding that the average number of hours the male and female respondents
had a job and/or played a sport was 14.53 hours a week.
 Conclusion
In conclusion from this survey we observed
that out of male and females most students
play sports/ work more often then they do
doing homework. The overall average GPA was
found to be 3.22. We found that students who
aren't overwhelmed with jobs and sports
typically do better by about 30%. Males who
responded to not play sports or work have the
highest result as far as GPA. Students work is
directly negatively affected by the amount of
time on other activity's such as work or sports.
 Sources
Google PowerPoint
Google graphs
Students used in survey (ASU)
Google Survey
www.fitnesscomparison.com