The Effect Of Poor Nutrition On The Student 's Academic Achievements

1. Describe the types of instrument(s) you plan to use for your study (e.g., interview protocol, attitudinal survey, achievement test, observation scale, questionnaire, focus group protocol, etc.).

Students need healthy, nutritious food choices to fuel their mind and bodies. Students experiencing food insecurity either don’t have enough food to eat or are eating a poor, nutrient- deficient diet. Either way, poor diets can affect the student’s physical and mental health which can lead to interruptions in their learning. Universities need to gather statistics on the portion of their student population affected by food insecurity and work towards a remedy. Not only does the student benefit from university interventions, but the university benefits by graduating students that are healthy, well-educated and have an instilled sense of the community involvement needed to invest in the future.

The purpose of my project is to see how stress and eating habits can affect college student academic performance, to determine the correlation between stress and eating habits,how it influence or affect college student academic performance. 25 participants were selected from Spring 2015 Kean University,Participants age ranges from 18-25. The majority of the participants were female, 16 female, 7 male, 16 female, and 1 participants did not disclosed their gender. participants answered 20 question survey with questions on stress and eating habits such as, the eating habit when students are stressed, level of stress, and stress relief. My data was collected through a survey around Kean University campus, students from the caf, classes, and library . When the full sample was evaluated, there was no correlation between stress and eating habit ( correlation coefficient was 0.0). my result indicated students level of stress range from 1-5, 48% of student level were 4. 40% participants said finals, 25% participants said exams make them stressed. Participants in this sample control their stressed through music of 40.4%, and eating of 28.8%. Sleeping, exercise and eating right, can change or reduce students stress level. my studies concludes with a discussion of implications to avoid stress.

Secondly, data will be collected through observation. An observer will have at least one week of observations at each school. They will observe the teachers in their classrooms as they teach. They will observe the students behavior and reception to the teaching style. They will see if the children learn through books, handouts, or electronic devices. They will take note of the individual school environments and how they operate. Documentation will be made of the schools disciplinary policy and how it is carried out.

It describes how parents were offered and opportunity to win a twenty-five dollar gift card for their participation and how students were pulled out of class in groups to complete the survey once they explained the purpose (Loera, Rueda, & Nakamoto, 2011). There is a specific section on data analysis. Discussion of their use of the exploratory factor analysis, comprehensive exploratory factor analysis, AMOS, and latent variable modeling because the technique controls for measurement error was discussed under this topic (Loera, Rueda, & Nakamoto, 2011). This article was very efficient in detailing the process it used to analyze the surveys. This makes this research easier to repeat and likely means the chances of it being valid and reliable or

This research served as a reminder when conducting qualitative field research to be cognizant of inconsistencies in reporting as it’s based on self-report. In this particular case, motivation, censor, and memory were the three thoughts that came to mind. Did the students have any motivation to complete the survey? What time of the day was the survey completed? If thousands of these surveys are being completed, does anyone really care about my single answer? Did the students receive an incentive for the time spent to complete the survey? In terms of censorship, depending on the survey would I be perceived as moral or immoral, affluent or impoverished, and in this particular case maybe a good kid or a bad kid scenario? And finally, memory; did the students have a better recollection of what occurred during the last month

Students should get a balanced diet. Poor diet affects children’s psychological as well as cognitive well-being and growth. Students who do not get a balanced diet are prone to perform poorly in school as compared to those who get quality, well-balanced diet. Those who depend mostly on fast foods are most likely to be obese. Obesity affects the child’s self-esteem and hence poor health on the child’s growth. It has been noted that education should help derive the wheel of the economy. Children who live in poor neighborhoods are also likely to suffer from malnutrition and hence perform poorly in school. A study carried out in

The article researched the correlation of healthy eating and physical activity and academic achievement. They also look at how parent’s education affects children’s test scores. The study was conducted in Australia and they used the same test to test all students. Parents also had to fill out a questionnaire sheet prior to the start of the experiment about their children. There were a fairly even number of males and females in the experiment ranging from grades 3,5,7 and 9. There were many studies done and the majority showed that physical activity had a positive impact on higher academic achievement. The experiment was conducted on fruit and vegetable intake, breakfast, sugary drinks and consumption of takeaway. The article went into great detail of the different age groups and the affects eating habits have on the children. It also touches on the socioeconomic status of the child’s household and the impact that holds as well. The healthier children are outside of school the better they perform in school.

Though the food intake is a major determinant of nutritional status in children, it is not the only determinant. It varies considerably with socio-economic status (SES) and environmental factors as well such as household economic resources namely income, asset and wealth, standard of living, caste, religion, education and occupation of the parents, also influence child health. Each component of SES displays varied relationships to various health outcomes and provides different resources. There is also a sequential dimension to their relationship, i.e. if an education level is achieved, it enables an occupation level to be achieved that returns a level of income. However, despite economic growth, India is far behind the world 's poorest nations in human development. Moreover, the development seems unbalanced with the benefits not reaching uniformly to all segments and regions of the country and major part of the improvement remained locked in the upper sections of the population, and relatively lesser benefits to the poor indicating the extreme inequalities of wealth and income across the states within the country. For example, as economic conditions improve, obesity and diet related non-communicable diseases may go up in countries with higher levels of undernutrition. In addition to interfering with attaining education and employment, increase in malnutrition also increases an individual’s health care costs that can add to impoverishment. Other than direct implications on

4. A fourth task is the construction of the specific measurement instruments. For a survey the interview guide or questionnaire is written, and the way in which the survey is to be carried out is specified. For an observational study the specific form and conditions of the observation and the types of recording processes to be used must be determined.

Next, the procedure for developing and validating the instrument is described. The data collection method is detailed subsequently and the chapter ends with the selection and suitability of analysis tools.

4.2..Research Instruments:- Questionnaires which is designed to obtain the necessary numerical data pertaining to my topic.

This research study would use paper and pencil method, an achievement test. The participants would be taking a progress monitoring test. This type of method is appropriate for the study because it gives accurate data about student’s abilities before the start of the research study. It is also used at the end of the study for the scores can be compared between each class and initial scores.

Procedure: Standard data collection procedure was followed in this study where the participants were briefed about the general purpose of the study. At first, the researcher went to the school and took the formal permission to the school authority as well as some teachers who were included in this procedure. Then they said to the teachers to select some students, who were well known by the teachers for evaluating these

The study sample population was made up of 177 respondents who were all secondary school students in public secondary schools. Seven research questions were raised out of which four (4) were answered and the other three (3) questions were hypothesised. Consequently, three (3) hypotheses were raised and analysed.