Relationship Between IQ results, Key stage 2 results and Gender in Secondary School Students

Relationship Between IQ results, Key stage 2 results and Gender in Secondary School Students

Introduction

We are going to investigate the relationships between IQ results, Key

stage 2 results and gender in secondary school students. The school

that we are using to gather information for our sample from, Mayfield,

is a fictitious high school. However, the data that is presented is

still based on a real school and real students.

Hypothesis

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I predict that this investigation will prove that girls are more

intelligent than boys. There are plenty of surveys that show that key

stage 2 results are higher for girls than boys. Although these surveys

may be questionable, as there would be some exceptions.

Plan

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By comparing the differences between the 3 factors, for girls and

boys, we will be able to determine which gender is more intelligent.

We will be using a random sample of 100 students - 50 boys and 50

girls. These 100 students will be selected randomly from year 7. We

will then use this sample to analyse the information and make

judgements about it. We will make graphs and charts to show our

results, which we will use to draw our conclusions on our information.

In order to obtain our sample, we did some stratified random sampling.

This means that we took 50 boys and 50 girls form year 7, but used the

random numbers generator on our calculator to pick which students

would be selected for our sample. We did this so that the information

we gathered would not be bias in any way.

The first thing we did was to find out the average mark from the key

stage 2 results for boys and girls. We were left with the following

results.

Mean results - boys KS2.

English

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