Boulder Creek College Bound Poll

By: Christie Terwilliger, Roxanne Anthony, and Christian Parker

For our poll we asked the question, are you going to college. We has 3 questions; 1. Do you know what career you will/hope to have in the future?, 2. Do you plan on attending college?, 3a. If yes, do you plan on attending college in Arizona?, and 3b. If no do you already have a job available to you?. All the questions can with multiple choice answers all of which were a, yes, b, no, and c, maybe besides questions 2 which the answers included a, yes-university, b, yes-community college, and c, no. We polled a total of 100 students and the results were as follows:

Correlations and Results:

Overall, the results display a high majority of students who plan on attending college. very few students said that they would not attend college.
According to this chart, a majority of students involved in athletics plan on attending a university as well as club members. No athletes do not plan on attending a college.

This chart illustrates the number of students with jobs and without jobs. According to this chart, students without jobs are more likely to not attend college. This may be because the working students might be working to save up for college.
General education students are more likely to not attend college while honors students are more likely to attend a university.
Employed honors students are more likely than unemployed general education students to attend a community college.

Method for Achieving Randomness:
The key for achieving randomness was to ask students at a variety of times, and locations. For example, out group polled students during lunch time and also on such social networking sites like Facebook.com and Myspace.com. While polling we tried to alternate between male and female and grade levels. Also, we tried to stay away from groups of friends and instead just ask one person instead of the whole group.

Possible Problems:

Possible problems for this could have been the overlapping of people interviewed. We did not record names of students and because of this it made it impossible to know if a student was already asked the same questions. Another possible problems could have been a counting error or a miscalculation/misunderstanding while speaking to students.