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Title of the Project
The title of the proposed small-scale research study is: Out-of-school activities and their perceived influence on students academic success.
Synopsis of the Research Project
The proposed small-scale research study seeks to investigate how out-of-school activities are perceived to influence students academic success. Examples of extracurricular activities that most students partake include sporting and recreational activities, music, art, volunteer work and community service, debate clubs, social activism, roleplaying, and culture and languages, among others. For the current small-scale research study, the out-of-school activity to be considered is learning English in Eikaiwa classes. The researcher will be concerned with how learning English in Eikaiwa classes as an extra-curricular activity is perceived to influence students Eikaiwa classes academic success. The research study will involve different participants, such as teachers and school leaders, students, and parents from which first-hand views and experiences will be collected based on the research objectives. A simple random probabilistic sampling method will be used during the recruitment of participants to make sure that all individuals in the population of targeted participants have the same chance of being enlisted into the representative sample. By the time the small-scale research study culminates, it is expected that the researcher will have gathered adequate data to help address the proposed research question, which is: How are out-of-school activities perceived to influence students academic success
The setting of the proposed small-scale research study will be Eikaiwa classes in Asao Yard, a suburb of Tokyo. The research will investigate how engagement in extracurricular activities, particularly learning English, by students studying in regular English cram schools, called Eikaiwa classes, affects their academic success. The data collected during? the research process will be analyzed to offer valuable suggestions on how cram schools leaders could promote attendance at extracurricular activities, that is, learning English in Eikaiwa classes, in light of how they are valued by different stakeholders, including teachers, students, and parents. Besides, the research study will investigate how students English learning accumulated through studies in Eikaiwa classes can influence their school studies, and how parents and teachers perceive the influence of these studies on students future academic success.
The data necessary for the proposed small-scale research study is quantitative data. It will be focused on gathering numerical data, including the number of times that students engage in the selected extracurricular activity and their school grades and how the particular out-of-school activity directly influences them. Overall, the collected data will emphasize objective measurements and the statistical, numerical, and mathematical analysis of data, as informed by Walliman (2017). The quantitative data will be collected from the carefully chosen participants through different methods, namely questionnaires, focus groups, and in-depth interviews. Besides, pre-existing statistical data will be manipulated through computational techniques. Other sources of the required quantitative data will be documentaries of web presence and other materials such as case studies, which will be analyzed to provide supplementary information to add to what will be gathered from teachers and school leaders, students, and parents. The quantitative data collected through the different methods will be analyzed distinctly but interpreted in light of each other. Boudah (2019) recommends the concept of data triangulation to be applied to foster both the validity and credibility of results.