The Impact of Netball on the Academic Performance

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Year of Examination: 2018

Subject and Unit: Sociology(Unit1)

Candidates Number(s):

Candidates Name(s): Nathifa Holt

Title of the Project: The impact of netball on the academic performance

Name of the Teacher: Mrs. N Morrison

Table of Content

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Background/Definition of the Research Problem……………. 1-2

Aims and Objectives ………………………………………… 3-3

Literature Review ……………………………………………. 4-7

The Research Design/Plan……………………………………. 8-8

The Sociological Perspectives….……………………………   9-9

The Sample …….……………………………………………. 10-10

Data Collection: Instruments/Techniques ..…………………   11-13

Presentation of Findings …..………………………………… 14-18

Analysis of Findings ………………………………………… 19-21

Discussion of Findings and Conclusion …….………………. 22-24

Bibliography ………………………………………………… 25-25

Acknowledgment

The researcher would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance in completing this research. Family member specifically her mother who made it possible for her to get this research in hardcopy. Friend who supported and the teacher who assisted in guiding her throughout the process.

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Background/Definition of the Research Problem

The researcher has always been curious as to how the netballers of a rural high school managed their social life, personal life and of course their academic life all combined with sports. The researcher’s curiosity was heightened when some of the school’s netballers were in the same batch as the researcher. said girls would have long hours of training specially if an upcoming match is approaching. And even with all that hard work they still maintained a decent average. Hence the researcher’s reason for researching this issue, to find out how extra-curricular activities, specifically netball affect students academically.

Denbigh high school, a phenomenon place of learning was never the school that everyone knows today, like their netball team, the school rose from the scums to the elites and is still rising. The school was first established in the year 1969, seven years after Jamaica’s independence. It went through a series of changes, on such was its name, starting from compulsory until it finally became a high school. As aforementioned, the school’s netball team did not just become the best of the best overnight, in fact they were one of the worst netball teams in the island, but they worked hard and achieved their dream of becoming the crème de la crème of high school netball teams.