Research Question: How do people view the effect sexual education has on high school teen pregnancy rate?
This research project seeks to identify what the perception people have of the effects sexual education has on the rates of teenage pregnancy. This project will be a quantitative study, because a quantitative study focuses on describing a phenomenon across a larger number of participants. Quantitative data can be analyzed with the help of statistics; this will result in unbiased data that can be generalized for the larger population.
Correlational research tests for the relationships between two variables. Performing correlational research is done to establish what the effect of one on the other might be and how that affects the relationship. Conducting a correlational research will allow for the correlation between sexual education and teenage pregnancy to be better studied. In order to collect data a survey will be distributed to high school students, age 14 through 18, in two different high schools: one with comprehensive sexual education the other with abstinence-only sex education. This will be done because surveys create for …show more content…
Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage. Comprehensive sex education contains information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality including: abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention. While teen pregnancy is at a historic low in the United states, with a total of 249,078 babies born to women aged 15–19 years in 2014 (About Teen Pregnancy, 2016), it is still a major problem. The United Nation Population views teen pregnancy as a major problem that perpetuates the cycle of poverty (Adolescent Pregnancy: A review of the evidence, 2013). Understanding how sexual education affects teen pregnancy can be helpful in reducing the rate of teen
This research project seeks to identify what the perception people have of the effects sexual education has on the rates of teenage pregnancy. This project will be a quantitative study, because a quantitative study focuses on describing a phenomenon across a larger number of participants. Quantitative data can be analyzed with the help of statistics; this will result in unbiased data that can be generalized for the larger population.
Correlational research tests for the relationships between two variables. Performing correlational research is done to establish what the effect of one on the other might be and how that affects the relationship. Conducting a correlational research will allow for the correlation between sexual education and teenage pregnancy to be better studied. In order to collect data a survey will be distributed to high school students, age 14 through 18, in two different high schools: one with comprehensive sexual education the other with abstinence-only sex education. This will be done because surveys create for …show more content…
Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage. Comprehensive sex education contains information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality including: abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention. While teen pregnancy is at a historic low in the United states, with a total of 249,078 babies born to women aged 15–19 years in 2014 (About Teen Pregnancy, 2016), it is still a major problem. The United Nation Population views teen pregnancy as a major problem that perpetuates the cycle of poverty (Adolescent Pregnancy: A review of the evidence, 2013). Understanding how sexual education affects teen pregnancy can be helpful in reducing the rate of teen