Correlation Between Niu Student s Application Rate

My topic for this survey was finding the correlation between NIU student’s application rates compared to the amount of debt students obtain while getting higher education. I designed my survey to where students could choose not to answer any of the questions if they did not wish to do so, therefore eliminating most of the bias lying could have on my results. I also included in my questionnaire gender, age, and parental contribution to their educational costs. When I decided on this topic I came to the hypothesis that most students I interviews would not have applied for scholarships, which would then leave them with some form of student debt. According to Debt.org â€Å"two-thirds of the nation’s full-time students pay for college with scholarships or grants† which means my survey could prove my hypothesis invalid. I also expected most students to say that their families would be contributing more to their education which can decrease the motivation when applying for scholarships. To conduct this survey, I created it online so it was easily shareable to everyone I know that goes to Northern Illinois University. I sent the survey out electronically so the website I used could add up the statistics for me, too make sure my results are completely valid. Throughout my survey I used a mixed methods research design to obtain my data. I used qualitative questions in order to find out gender, and whether or not students applied for scholarships and if so what types of scholarships theyShow MoreRelatedThe Goal Of Teaching English Essay2096 Words   |  9 Pagesis one of the dominant goals in learning a second language (L2) for many L2 learners, and it has mostly been assumed that successful L2 acquisition (SLA) occurs within a context of the use of target language. Researchers have identified that the application of the target language plays an important role in SLA (Seliger, 1977; Swain, 1995, 1998). Long before the advent of communicative language teaching, the primary goal of language learning was to master the structure of the language and to develop