Class Timing vs.

GPA
Natalie Hole, Alyssia Saldana, Sim Bal

Research Topic
How does the timing of classes
affect GPA?

Why this topic?

We chose this topic because we wanted to find out if the
timing of classes, whether early in the morning, in the
afternoon, or night classes, would affect a students GPA
or not.

Our Survey Questions

What level are you in college?
What is your GPA?
How many classes are you enrolled in?
On what days of the week do you have class?
What time do you usually start class each day?

Our Survey Questions (Cont.)

What time do you usually end class each day?
Asked to tell us the timing of classes for most students and what time
of day do most students have classes.(Morning,Afternoon,Evening)

Do you have breaks in between each class? If so, how long?

Do you find it easier to keep up with school and work when
you have long breaks in between each class, or short
breaks?
We asked these to figure out if having a break in between classes, and
if the length of the break, affects GPA as well.

The Data

Most students have 4-6

classes.

Most students have

classes on Tuesdays
and Thursdays.

Each college level has

an average GPA above
3.0.

The Data (Cont.)

More students have

classes that start
earlier in the morning
than in the afternoon.

Most students have

classes that end
mid-afternoon.

The Data (Cont.)

More students have long

breaks in between their
classes.

A significant amount of
students prefer breaks
in between their
classes.

Analysis
From the information gathered in our survey, we came to
the conclusion that most students have 4-6 classes, and
they typically start in the morning. Based on the average
GPAs, students that have morning classes will have a
better GPA.
Also, most students have breaks between their classes and
they prefer to have breaks. This may also be a reason the
GPA averages are high.

So What?
We thought that the timing of classes would affect a
students GPA. Based on what we gathered, we can say that
this is true because the amount of students that had a
high grade. The majority of them had classes in the early
morning and had breaks in between their classes. This
means that we can also say that the time in between
classes can affect a students GPA as well.

Errors/Limitations
The main issues that we had in our project had to do with
the questions in our survey.
We had some problems with the responses of the timing of classes. The problem mainly
being with AM and PM times. Analyzing the data turned out to be more difficult
because we had figure out a way to group together all of the responses.

We also had some problems with our long and short answer
questions.
We had to take extra time to go through and read all of the written responses to
look for the 1-2 word answers that we needed for our data to put into graphs. We
probably should have used a multiple choice question format rather than a
short/long answer question format.