Blog 10

Research Plan:

Discovering Student's Study Habits: Does excessively studying improve results?

Introduction

After struggling to find a topic to research about, I decided to focus on college students study habits. The purpose of my research is to discover how students study and write papers to see what strategy is best. I prefer to interview or survey students that major in Education, English, Social Sciences, and Communication since I know that they usually have both papers and exams from personal experience. I'm trying to see different majors perspectives and study habits and find similarities and differences. The results will vary depending on their area of concentration. My hypothesis would be that social sciences and education majors will experience more exams than papers compared to the other two. I feel that communication will be the outlier within the group and probably hardly experience both.


Sample Research Questions

1. Do you prefer to write papers or take exams?
2. Do you study often?
3. What do you do for preparation?


Information needed

- Student majors
- Do they take more exams or have papers?
- Study habits
- List of hobbies
- Does their major class (currently or recently) give out more papers or exams?
- What they preferably want to have between papers and exams.
- Do they think studying numerous hours are effective?
- Record techniques that may prove effective.


Preliminary Sources/ Collecting Data

- Surveys
- Interviews
- Online sources and statistics:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
- http://www.csc.edu/learningcenter/study/studymethods.csc