DOES THE FOUND EVIDENCE SUPPORT THE HYPOTHESIS?
Research Piece #1
While this article does not directly support that children with separated parents have worse academics, it does support that not having an encouraging father consistently in a child’s life is likely to lead to lower SAT scores.
In this article, extraneous and confounding variables were if a child had only one parent due to one dying, or if they still had a healthy and encouraging relationship with their father due to their parents having joint custody. However, these parts of the sample data were removed from the study before the data was calculated and studied, so it did not have an effect on the result.
Research Piece #2
This article supports my hypothesis in that children of divorced parents are more likely than those with continuously married parents to have an undecided educational ambition. While it does not investigate if they achieved worse results, it does support that having divorced parents with have a negative effect on a student’s academic career.
This article had limitations in that the data used was from a study taken in the early 2000’s, and while specifying the age group and where it was taken, did not specify the ethnicity or gender percentage of the population. While I believe that the source was reliable as it was from a school-provided website and stored many other documents, the lack of specification could mean that there could be an extraneous variable in that most of the sample was female, or that majority were of the same ethnicity.
This article had limitations in that the data used was from a study taken in the early 2000’s, and while specifying the age group and where it was taken, did not specify the ethnicity or gender percentage of the population. While I believe that the source was reliable as it was from a school-provided website and stored many other documents, the lack of specification could mean that there could be an extraneous variable in that most of the sample was female, or that majority were of the same ethnicity.