Ryan,+Eric+Y

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= = = = = = = = =**Question**: //What are the major motivations for high-school students’ participation in their after-school activities?//= =Hypothesis: The majority of high school students in Seoul(KIS) participate in their after-school activities for their hobbies(particularly in sports), and also because of parental demand and better college; however, it is the hobby and friendship for the students in Illinois(Illinois High School).= =Research Plan: Surveys (or sth else)=
 * This hypothesis was drawn out; because, our group thought that Korean high schools focus more on education than high school students in Illinois, and that the interrelationship among students is more common in Illinois than Seoul.**

4) They must choose among the following options: //hobby//, //friendship//, //parental demand//, //better college//, and //others//
=Potential research flaws/problems:=

The unique problem for this research is that our samples may not enthusiastically assist to our investigation, and thus, the results can be different than the reality is.
=Number of people to research: 30~ (Both genders)=

=Communication Method: Facebook=







=KOREA, SEOUL=

=**More than 1 activity**=

Girls: 6 Boys: 8 Total girls: 34 Total boys: 25 Totals: 59
=US, ILLINOIS=

Totals: 51
=Total researched: 110 (51 boys / 59 girls)=

- By Eric

- By Eric

Literature Review
The literature pertaining to the reasons and benefits for today’s youth doing after school activities is vast and interesting to say the least. Many articles focus on the benefits and statistics for youth doing extracurricular activities. One such article from an online news source call JSonline has an article entitled “After-school activities declining”. According to the article the rate of kids doing these activities is steadily decreasing. This can be due to a number of reasons but most revolve around the ever changing society of technology. Convenience is essential today and time is part of that convenience and kids apparently just don’t have time anymore. Another article from Associated content.com elaborated on why it would be beneficial for youth to do after-school activities. These reasons range from physical benefits to psychology benefits. Two other articles, both from Harvard Family Research Project.org, focus on if these activities are even beneficial and the relation to older youth. Both end up concluding that they are beneficial. All the articles point to the fact that the main force making teens not participate in after-school activities is technology and lack of time. Many teens who do participate do it for either physical benefits, social benefits, or were forced by a family member to do so. While there is still a fair amount of teens who still participate for the joy of the activity, there is an ever growing number of those with extrinsic values.

-Ryan

There are a lot of different after school activities out there and a lot of uhigh kids are in more than one after school activity. I'm pretty sure that the average at uhigh is 4. You might want to think of narrowing down your research down to a specific subgroup of after school activities. Example Musical activities, or Sports. (Trace)

Sadie: I agree with Trace that U-High students might not reflect the actual high school population very well because activities are part of the reason we got into this school. Maybe asking kids from normal or west would be a more accurate representation. But overall I think this is a really interesting topic!

Ali: You may also want to ask the students how many extra-curricular activities they are in and to see if their reasons for participating differ for each activity. For example, students may join a sports team for friendship or hobby, but do a musical activity because of parental demand.

Jane: I think this project is a really good idea. You should definitely narrow it down to one type of extra-curricular activities such as sports, music, or theater. I also think it would be helpful to ask more than just 30 people, just to get a better variety of students. Also, will you allow people to choose more than one response on the sheet or will they just have to pick one that fit their reason the best?