affect your school performance? By: Brooklyn Russell, Eliza Morse, and Mia Davis Our Research Question: Does mental illness have a negative impact on academic performance?
o Questions: gender, grade, what college respondents are
enrolled, if they were diagnosed with a mental illness, specify which*, what treatment they were receiving, GPA, and if they thought their mental health has affected their coursework.
o Google docs form used to gather data
o 90 responses total, all of which from EDT 180 students at ASU
Graph 1: Average GPA by Class
o To answer research question, academic
performance is measured by GPA o Overall trend of falling GPA each year o 1 graduate student, four seniors while half of respondents were freshmen. o Could ongoing untreated mental illness be one cause of falling GPA? o 15% of freshmen report going without treatment o Seniors report that number to be 25% Graph 2: Average GPA of Mental Illness by Grade o Trend of GPA falling each year o Those with mental illness have a higher GPA than those who do not o Seniors have the lowest GPA; 4 respondents o 1 respondent with Bipolar Disorder o 1 Graduate student Graph 3: Average GPA by Grade Receiving Treatment o Data skewed due to small sample size o 1 graduate student o gaps o 4 seniors o Each selected one of the 4 options o Freshman offer the best sample size o Those in therapy and or taking medication have a higher GPA than undiagnosed without treatment Graph 4: Has mental illness ever directly affected your schoolwork? o 47 of 90 respondents said yes o 33 of 47 selected they were diagnosed with a mental illness o Mental Illness can often go undiagnosed, especially among college aged students Conclusions: How does mental illness affect school? o Freshmen have the highest GPA o Does mental illness left untreated lead to a decline in academic performance? o Treatment helps with academic performance o Why is receiving treatment so effective? Do students feel bettering their mental state provides more motivation for school? Conclusions: How does mental illness affect school? o Schoolwork is affected even if they are not diagnosed o Is the students mental state, diagnosed or not, a large factor in their productivity of school work? o Those with a mental illness have higher GPA than those who do not o What techniques are students using to achieve an effective way to study, despite their illness? o Data does not reflect what is normally found in other research which could be due to a number of factors