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Contributors Were Gathered And Called Up From The Desert Sands Unified School

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Sampling Procedure Contributors were gathered and called up from the Desert Sands Unified School District from 2010 to 2013. Specifically, teenage males who were between the ages of 16 to18 years old. Only those within the grade levels of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade were allowed to take part in our experiment. Students were asked to take part and complete an in-class questionnaire that would take about 6 to 12 minutes. The survey involved questions about hours spent through social media, favorite social media, and what they enjoyed doing on these websites. The total came up to be 1,378 students finished the first stage. Of these, 546 chose not responded, while the other males in the school did not fall into the age category. The remaining 832 …show more content…

546 decided to stop being apart of the survey, which left 832 to continue the experiment. From these remaining students, 416 became the control group (only 2 ½ hours of social media), while the other half became the control group (all day access to social media). The amount began to lower as the school years progressed up to graduation, in which resulted in many drop outs based on grades and bad influences. Students under the age of 16 or over the age of 18 in the grades 10th, 11th, and 12th were not a part of the experiment as the did not meet the appropriate ages of 16 to …show more content…

Frequency of drop out rates between my experiment and controlled groups. We asked ourselves, “Is there a correlation between lower grades, drop-out rates, and those who become a part of gang related events, when social media is present?” This question became relevant when asking ourselves what was the cause of the drop outs and what did these students do if not in school. We asked those students with low grades if they liked school and wish to continue with the options ranging from 5 categories: “I love it and wish to continue,” “I only want to finish high school,” “Not important to me,” “I hate school,” and “I hate school and do not wish to finish.” These responses were then used to track the males who claimed not to hate school and not want to finish it. This way we are able to determine if they dropped out of school or

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