How Does Living On or Off Campus

Impact Your GPA?

Group B10

Brandon Fuchs, Samantha Martinez, Emily Walthers

EDT180B

Professor Lewellan

April 26, 2018

How Does Living On or Off Campus Impact Your GPA?

 The topic chosen to research was, “How does living on or off campus impact your

GPA?” In order to find the answer to this question we utilized google forms to create a survey

for students of the EDT 180 class to answer. We collected over 133 responses from people.The

questions that were asked to find a target audience include: How old are you? What is your

gender? In which college are you enrolled? Where do you live? What is your GPA? How many

hours do you study on an average day? Is living in your current place affected your GPA?

The first chart that we created was from the question, what is your gender? The responses

for this included female, male, other and prefer not to answer. The gender that responded most

was females, than males, then other, and prefer not to answer. There was a noticeable difference

between male and females as over one hundred and under twenty-five males. This audience was

because Mr. Lewellan gave this google form to his classes which mainly consist of teachers

college. In the teachers college, there are more females than males.

Next we found out the living situation of the respondents. The most popular answer was

living in the dorms with a roommate which was 50 people. Next would be at home with parents,

then apartment with roommates, Then in a single dorm room. These responses would make the

most sense as the main demographic of this survey was freshmen.

 The next question asked was how old are you? This question was important to ask as

learning the age would be important on learning the demographic as well. For this chart we

decided to find the averages, median, mode, maximum, and minimum ages of our responses. The

average age consisted of nineteen years old, the mode age consisted of eighteen, the median age

was eighteen as well. The maximum age of our responses was thirty-four years old, the

minimum age was zero. There was one response that entered an age of zero which is considered

an error.
 The next question we decided to ask is what college are you in? We took all the colleges

in Arizona State University and let each person surveyed report which one they are in. The

number one college for the research was Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College by a significant

amount of votes. It was important to ask this question as it let us know what audience we are

reporting on. The next largest group was the Liberal Arts & Science College. The range between

the teacher’s college and liberal arts & science college was around a 50 person difference. Again

this comes from the fact we distributed the form among Professor Lewellan’s classes.
 For the next chart our group decided to present the amount of people and their current

GPA (Amount of People vs. GPA). This is an important part of our research as it will allow us to

see the grade point average and give us an idea of the who we are interviewing. The highest GPA

was a range of 3.5-4.0+ and consisted of a little less than 60, this being the most popular option.

Next would be 3.0-3.49 and also being the second most popular option at a little less than 50

people choosing. Around 30 people have a GPA of 2.99 and below.

 Taking in the amount of people participating and their gender (Overall Popularity: By

GPA) we created a graph to show overall popularity among the GPA’s. It was interesting to find

that females mainly were the ones with the lower GPAs (1.5 and lower). Important to note that

again most of the participants in this area females and that is why it seems females are

dominating the chart. More females from our research groups had 2.5-4.0 in contrast to the

males. This chart was important to find how genders do academic wise.

The next chart answers our question of if there was a change in GPA (Popularity By:

Change in GPA). As shown below, in the 3.5-4.0+ range the highest portion is that the GPA

stayed the same, next the GPA went up then not applicable, lastly would be it went down. For

the 3.0-3.49 range the GPA stayed the same, then GPA went up, next would be it went down,

then not applicable. The general consensus is that the GPA stayed the same (most popular) or

went up more than not applicable or going down. Unfortunately for some the GPA’s did go

down even as low as the 0-.99 GPA.

 Next we analyzed GPA vs. Hours studied. The most popular response was the 0-3 hour

range. In the 3.5-4.0+ the most popular response was 0-3 hours, 4-7 hours being next, then 8-11.

On the chart it was interesting to see that the students that have a 0-.99 GPA study 4-7 hours

typically which is more than some students that have a GPA of 3.5-4.0+. For the GPA range of

2.99-1.0 GPA the hours studied were 0-3 the most. This chart really shows how sometimes hours

studied isn’t always equivalent to the GPA.

The last chart we created shows the answers the question of where do you live vs. GPA.

In a dorm with roommates has the most amount of people that have a GPA of 3.5-4.0. It was

interesting to note that when living with others typically the GPA was 3.5-4.0+ as the most. This
again could relate to others motivating to do more home or could affect in a negative way as they

can be distractions.

From looking at the data and charts it was interesting to see the demographic we reached

and how wide of a range GPAs could be. Having the GPA the same as being the most consistent

was shocking to learn, as well as, college is seen as more difficult than high school.Our

demographic for this mainly consisted of the teachers college but it was important to note that

everyone was still different in living situations, GPAs and age. Other questions that could be

asked are what types of classes are being taken, do you have a job, are you involved in

extracurriculars and how many hours are those, ethnicity, lastly if a student was in state or out of

state. Again this will show more information on who was being interviewed. If we were to do

this again we would most likely ask these questions in person so that way to make sure that the

answers most likely are more true since some don’t have the integrity to put the truth in these

forms. Another thing we would do is ask more of a range of majors that way we can have more

diversity in demographic and strengthen our arguments.