Sociology Ia
Sociology Ia
Sociology Ia
Table of Contents
Title
Number
Statement of Problem
Aims and Objectives.
Literature Review
Research Design.
Sample.
Data Collection Instrument.....
Presentation of Data and Analysis
Findings, Discussion of Findings, Conclusion...
Recommendation
Appendix
Bibliography.
Statement of problem
Assessment of hockey and how it impacts the students of the Jamaica Hockey
Federation.
Aims:
1.to study the persistence of students who are on the hockey federation academic results
2.To decipher whether or not planned games/events will interrupt regular schooling
3.to find out if there are benefits to reap from co-curricular activities
4.To get a clear understanding of whether or not the co-curricular activities has a more of a
positive or negative impact on youths .
Objectives
1.To find out the benefits of co-curricular activities (if any)
2.To illustrate that doing co-curricular activities can influence some roles/aspects of a youths life
3.to prove that the benefits and rewards of co-curricular activities will reap later than in life than
right now .
4.To decipher if co-curricular activities should be compulsory
Literature Review
Historical Background
The Organization
The Jamaica Hockey Federation (JHF) was formed on January 31, 1998,
through the amalgamation of the Jamaica Men's Hockey Association and the
Jamaica Women's Hockey Association. The JHF is a member of the
international governing body of hockey. This brings us to the management
and organization of hockey in Jamaica in conformity with international
requirements that there be a single national association responsible for the
development and regulation of the sport in each country.
The JHF has its headquarters at Mona, and has recently installed
international all weather artificial playing field which now allows for the
development of players and the
sport to world class standards.
MISSION STATEMENT
To foster, encourage, develop, administer and play the game of hockey
locally, regionally and internationally, at the highest international and
professional level
Simeroth stated that extra-curricular activities are sponsored activities
outside the regular school hours and not part of the official school
educational program. This includes sports, clubs, and organised student
committee. However he takes this further and says that by partaking in
with this lost and were easily replaced . the instrument that was used to
conduct this research was mainly Questionnaire and interviews in a minority.
Sample
The Random sampling method of this research was chosen on the
basis that the individuals that were chosen had to answer the questions
which were on the questionnaire, which allowed them to be relevant to the
subject being studied. This type of sampling was chosen because the subject
matter was only for a specific group of people who are small in number. The
organization is a very small one in comparison to other sports. This sapling
method is Purposive Sampling, and even though it is open to subjective
opinion it had to be done as no one else was there to chose another sample
to which could be applied.
Section
Three
shows a drastic variation in the number of male and female in the sport, with
females being the dominant hockey team group.
5
4
Grade 1
4
Grade 2
Grade 3
Other
3
2
0
Males
Females
In the males bar graph grouping, the eight men questioned, there
were mostly Grade 2s with 5 of them belonging to the males questioned.
There were also an equal level in the results of both Grades 1 and Grades 3
which was distributed among the 8 males. The females have exceeded the
males by twice the amount of both persons who got Grades 1 and Grades 2
in the male bar grouping where the females got 8 and 9 for the results of
Grades 1 an Grades 2, respectively. However the females were on the same
levels as the males for the Grade 3 results which were 4. However this four is
not the same as the boys, as out of 12 females there were only 4 Grade 3s.
There was also an other which may the result of Grade 4 to an ungraded.
7-9 sub.
5
10
1
1
4-6 sub.
Males
Females
0-3 sub.
2
0
10
The females has received the highest amount of subjects which was 10
out of the 12 members who got 7-9 subjects, with most of those subjects
being of Grades 1 and 2 standards. This extraordinary documentation of data
has only left 2 persons to get 4-6 subjects and 0-3 subjects, respectively. The
males also have also done well with 5 out of the 8 persons questioned got 79 subjects followed by2 person getting 0-3 subjects and 1 person getting 4-6
subjects. In the diagram, the 4-6 subject grouping has the same number of
person in that group representing each gender with one person.
3.5
3
2.5
2
2
1.5
Males
Females
0.5
0
Females
10 hrs
8 hrs
5 hrs
Males
less than 5 hrs
The graph above is showing that for the males, only one person gets
an average of 19 hours of sleep during his time at school doing whatever it
may be. With a high of 4 persons get an average of 8 hours of sleep which is
the minimum hours of sleep recommended which is received by half of the
males. Down to 2 persons from this high of 4 persons only get about 5 hours
of sleep, on average, during the school year. This decline continues with only
1 person being recorded to get less than 5 hours of sleep, on average, which
can be bad, good or just okay for this individual.
The females ratings begin on a low of zero, with no members getting
an average of 10 hours of sleep during school. However this changes where
these levels go up to 4 members, getting a maximum of 8 hours of sleep.
This trend continues with 4 more persons getting a maximum of 5 hours of
sleep. Then also, 4 more persons get less than 5 hours of sleep for females,
in comparison to the males 1 person.
Other
Team Work
5
10
Responsibility
females
8
Time Management
males
4
8
Sportsmanship
5
0
11
4
10
12
playing hockey which is good to have obtained from the sport and lastly
there was 1 person that learnt other from hockey.
The females on the other hand have learnt Sportsmanship, with a
maximum of 11 out of the 12 persons in the group learning this. Followed by
this, is Team Work, where 10 persons said that they have learnt this
principle. Thirdly, Responsibility and Time Management were learnt as a
result of playing hockey with each principle receiving 8 persons learning
these. Finally, there were 3 persons that learnt other things and principles
from hockey.
1
2
1
1
1
10
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
The ratings of 1-10 were used to rate how much each person thought
about hockey in general, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
Half of 50% of the members of the Jamaica Hockey Federation have rated the
sport to be a 10, which is the highest score to receive. Followed by this, are
the ratings of 7 and 8 which is a total of 20% of the ratings given. However
there were various persons that rated hockey 1 through 6 which is a total of
25%, all together. The remaining 5% goes to the rating of 9 for Field Hockey.
There was no rating of 3, which is the reason for it not being represented on
the pie chart, but is seen in key of the chart. No one graded hockey as 3 out
of 10.
Section Four
grade can still be achieved. There was high grade results from both genders
as even though the males were lower than the females is a result of only 8
males answering the questionnaires in comparison to the 12 females that
answered. The males have excelled just as well as the females. This statistics
prove that what Steiberg, 1988 was saying was completely right, as extracurricular....is likely to enhance than interfere with.academic aspiration and
achievement.
This statistical data also points to answer the next aim as stated above
as if these are the results of the students in their external examinations then
there is no interference by school games or training to a further extent. Not
illustrated in the research project, the members were asked in question 9, if
school games interfered with studies, and it was found that 70% or 14 of the
members stated that this did not happen. This again also proves that
Steiberg, 1988 was right again about sports enhancing academic
achievement.
The graph illustrating the CXC grades attain also show that 75% of the
entire sampling group got 7-9 subjects which are mostly grades 1 and 2 with
a few 3s for these passed subjects. Feltz & Weiss, 1984 also said that extracurricular activities better ablehigher achieved levels of performance. This
again proves that it is beneficial to participate in an extra-curricular activity.
This also is not impacted by the fact that members do not get the minimum
required amount of sleep and a few who gets a minimum of 5 hours with a
Recommendation Page
Based on my findings, as the researcher, there is nothing to be
changed as Field Hockey has a positive impact on its members of the
Jamaica Hockey Federation as the members are producing good grades and
are learning positive principles, which are life lessons, which will create the
well-rounded individual that Hanks, Eckland speaks about.
The only things that I recommend to be changed are that there be
continue of improving the working team which include umpires and coaches
to make the sport better. There also should be some time and money being
pumped into the activity to help endorse the sport so that other people can
experience the positive benefits which Field Hockey can offer. Improvement
should also be placed in the building and maintenance of equipment which is
used in training and playing the game. This includes more balls, sticks,
protection gear (shin guards, mouth guards) and goal-keeper gears.
Appendix
Questionnaire
This questionnaire seeks to investigate if field hockey impacts the members
of the Jamaica Hockey Federation positively or negatively. I thank you for your time
in answering it.
Please place a tick (
1. Gender. ___Male
____Female
2. Age. _____
____other
____School
_____International
______Club
______National
______4-6 subjects
______6-9 subjects
_____10
______Grade 2
______Grade 3
8. What was your effective time management strategy during hockey season.
____Do assignment after practice
_____Others
9. Did school games interfere with your studies? (getting class notes, doing
homework, etc.)
____Yes
____No
10. Has school work piled up on you, or not done because of hockey?
____Yes
____No
_____Energetic
____8 hours
____5 hours
____less
13. Do your parents think hockey was interfering with your studies?
____Yes
____No
____No
____Time management
____Responsibilities
____Other
Bibliography
http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/26856
http://www.jamaicahockeyfed.org/
Minutes of the Jamaica Hockey Federation Planning Retreat, January 15, 2011
Mustapha, N.(2009).Sociology for Caribbean Students.Jamaica.Ian Randle
Publishers