I. Chapter 1. Research Plan: TH TH
I. Chapter 1. Research Plan: TH TH
Research Plan
1 .1 Introduction
developed in such a magnitude that academic performance has decreased on large scales
these days in teenagers. As a matter of fact this century has been a whole new platform for
society growth itself; ideals that were not accepted 20 years ago are now pillars of society.
Even though the growth and development the world have exceeded the ideals, it is still not
mature enough to see and understand the destruction happening in the surroundings. Not just
material destruction but life destruction. Applying the main focus on Tegucigalpa, Honduras
on teenage students in 9th through 11th grade that assist to private institutions, more
specifically CEAD Christian School and La Estancia School from what is going to be studied
is: the reasons, causes, effects and power that bullying has over the conflict of, academic
performance.
On the first chapter the approach given to the research will be clarifying the research
problem; from bullying’s origin, its development, and how it had affected teenagers in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras in their academic performance. See into the way that Bullying is not
contributing to society, talking about teenagers that are not completely formed in their
education causing them to not be ready to go out chasing real life; because the great
importance given to this nonconformity students are not reaching to acquire the knowledge
being taught to them. This produces the lack of higher levels of academic performance.
On the second chapter the center will be the investigation through surveys and research to
observe and analyze how Bullying had been affecting academic performance. Also one wants
to get more professional opinions and statements, meaning interviews are going to be realized
to professionals in this case; psychologists, teachers, and parents of the individuals that are
being affected by this phenomenon. More deeply into the focus of this research, which is the
individuals are truly affected by it or the other part of individuals that see it as not an
On the third chapter it will be presented the final explanation of how Bullying works and
affects this task, academic performance. Now this one will present evaluated and accepted
researches and investigations that were already studied, and analyze both of the resources
obtained, meaning the data obtained by ones hand and the data obtained and analyzed by
previous investigations.
1.2 Background
The term used to connect students with their academic performance in this case is bullying.
To understand where bullying comes from it is necessary to define the term. Bullying is
unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived
power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.
Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. Bullying
includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or
verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. [CITATION USD18 \l 18442 ]
Since Bullying it is not just a social issue at Honduras, there is a need to approach it as a
cultural phenomenon, not just talking about one country. The fact that it is not just found in
Honduran society, but in worldwide societies, there is a need to consider it has deeper origins
rather than only Honduras culture. By some resources, the point made was that bullying
rather than having a cultural origin; it is part of human nature itself. This means that bullying
may have not been called these way years ago but still it was manifested and part of society’s
daily life. As a matter of fact in will never depend on were one lives, bullying is present in
That being stated it is clear to observe how Bullying will not just affect Honduran students in
their academic performance but it will do the same at every other country in the world.
Making more emphasize in Honduran society it’s shown that according to the report
"Violence in schools", published by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), half of
students between 13 and 15 years of age state that they have experienced peer violence in and
Based on statistics, outside this research, professionals and others it will be demonstrated
how much bullying works in the effect produced to individuals, in this case teenage students,
in their academic performance; having in mind the most influential factors such as: the
amount of teenagers that provided needed information, professional’s knowledge, books with
based on the topic, and other additional sources the following facts are under questioning:
How much is bullying affecting Tegucigalpa, Honduras teenage students from 9th to
11th grade hat assist to private institutions, more specifically CEAD Christian School
Society often has the question in mind about how certain trends reach a level of importance in
them. Honduras as a country in development process, focusing in Tegucigalpa; the city has
not been correctly managed in matters of education, economics, among others. Bullying in
Honduras increases each day, forcing society to open their arms to accept it as part of the
Finding a full view of how the situation has been managed or has not been dealt with
correctly will lead into a short but, concrete amount of variables to solve this social issue.
Honduran society will have a voice, as well as bullying itself will have its own based on
investigations, professionals and paper works. Truth is bullying is affecting every aspect of
daily life, how will it not be affecting the most common area?
The lack of interest on bullying side effects in society makes academic performance low its
Present what is bullying, and the major influence it has in academic performance, more into
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• Identify the most common bullying types that influence academic performance.
• Identify the impact bullying have in Tegucigalpa, Honduras CEAD Christian School
1.5 Hypothesis
Academic performance is affected by a variety of factors, bullying being of them. Not just the
victim but the bully itself both will indeed be alternating their academic performance either in
a positive or negative way. Many rising organizations give support and try to make awareness
of this social issue, but still they do not manage to reach the ultimate goal which is
eradicating or at least reducing bullying among society. That being stated for this
investigation the hypothesis is that bullying does affect and cause academic performance
decrease or increase.
way or negative, this means that the focus given to the social issue is less and because of it
1.6 Justification
it is positive or negative. If it is not managed now in a future it surely could become a greater
issue leading to other social issues. Bullying had been an impact in our daily life, for sure it is
not directly controlling a complete country development, but indeed if the problem continues
increasing for sure it will lead to student’s lack of their whole education causing lack of
professionals in the country. The research will entirely be orientated to society improvement.
With this one wants to say that the issue is trying to be understood in the point of view
perceived from the affected ones as well as the professionals in this specific theme. As final
reason of the research looks forward to analyze and determine how this issue, bullying,
Moving forward, the actual investigation revolves around bullying, which includes types,
causes, and more of that matter; academic performance, including students, tasks at school
II.1.1 Bullying
For starters it is needed to define the most important term of this entire investigation,
bullying. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that
involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential
to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious,
Bullying is not just affecting children, but grown-ups too. Meaning, since the problem
already owns a background, it comes happening from over the first years of a human. Of
course it is not the same way at an adult bullying situation and a kid bullying situation. Both
of them vary in a group of characteristics. The previous definition only mentions this type of
behavior among school aged children; it could be possible that in the past years or even
decades this phenomenon was not recognized as a social issue but only a transitory process of
intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the
form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [ CITATION Ame171 \l 18442 ].
With this new definition displaced we see that it is not just determined for kids, or teenagers.
Leaving aside the fact that the investigation surely only involves kids and teenagers cases it is
Inquiring a little further in the term, it is shown the types of bullying; there are three types of
bullying:
o Teasing
o Name-calling
o Taunting
includes:
o Hitting/kicking/pinching
o Spitting
o Tripping/pushing
Finding more about this, it was discovered that they not just exist this three bullying types,
with technology advances it is way much easier for, not just adults but kids and teenagers, to
have access to a computer, cellphone or tablet which leads the complete and easy access to
social media. This double-edged sword, social media, is the main factor and founder of the
software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites and other online
When people hear the term “academic performance” they often confuse the meaning by
implying it is the score obtained, or a GPA, but academic performance is more than just that.
It is often consider grades first when defining academic performance. This includes schools,
which rank students by their GPA. Scholarship organizations and universities also start by
looking at grades, as do some employers, especially when hiring recent graduates. Grades
carry more weight in some industries, especially technical professions such as law, medicine
and finance. Other industries place less importance on GPA, particularly creative professions
such as writing or art and occupations such as sales where people skills are more crucial than
Of course scores are the main part of an academic performance, which basically when you
divide the words, what you get is academic: relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or
connected with studying and thinking, not with practical skills. (Cambridge definition), and
performance: how well a person, machine, etc. does a piece of work or an activity.
(Cambridge definition).
With both defined terms as a one total term we see how well a person, in this case a student,
does the activity of studying and thinking, not with practical skills directly. Still with this
obtained, it remains the first idea that academic performance is not just a grade, but the way
depending on the individuals position in given case, if he or she is referred as the victim, the
o Lack of partnership with classmates, starting to be apart from the social group
o Not paying attention in school hours cause the failing in the majority of factors listed
above
According to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, children who are bullied
have "lower academic achievement, a greater dislike of school and less confidence in their
academic abilities," said CNN. The study also found that boys are more likely than girls to
suffer from bullying throughout all age groups analyzed. [ CITATION Nic17 \l 18442 ]. This are
some study finds that took around six years to be complete developed. As a matter of fact the
Still it is not necessarily only because bullying is happening at school but by the study done it
is pretty much clear the weight it has inside school. As abnormal it could sound, boys are
more likely to suffer from bullying, and it is even more fantastic because this is in between all
age groups analyzed. Bullying might not be only happening at school but it is reflected in
school results because kids don’t want to go anymore, or they see it just as an obligation
Many of the affected individuals often are not brave enough to mention the situation to
somebody near them. Either way there had been multiple new platforms for victims, and
watchers of this phenomenon for them to find a way out of it. Their lack of confidence and
ignorance of education of this theme causes their isolation from their nucleus, which is their
family; their community, which involves friends, neighbors, teachers, and so on. In view of
this the problem is not reported meaning authorities and grown-ups cannot proceed to find a
If the individual, either victim, founder, or observer, does not report any bullying activity,
such as physical, verbal, social, and cyber-bullying, there will never be a reduction of the low
academic performance students are presenting. In statistics obtained from National Center for
Educational Statistics it is observed that a 43% of bullied students report notifying an adult at
III. Methodology
The approach given to this investigation is a quantitative approach. The quantitative approach
is the one that studies numeric data, through statistics that will help give a solution or answer
to the problem.
Methods used in this investigation include:
Surveys
Interviews
Surveys work as a technique destined to obtain data of various individuals from which
impersonal opinions are of great interest to the investigator. From which, in difference of the
interview it is used a list of questions for them to answer. In this technique one gets to
interact with the responder, such as the interview, aside from the observation method. There
Interviews work as a technique with the end of a dialogue between two individuals: the
investigator, which is the interviewer, and the interviewed. It is used to obtain information
3.3.1 Demographic
The group of people that will be tested is the Tegucigalpa, Honduras students of private
bilingual institutions of 9th through 11th grade from La Estancia School and CEAD Christian
3.3.2 Sample
With the given formula the number of people that will be studied from the total population is:
301.450799 = 301.
3.4 Instrument
It was used a survey with eight questions, in which five of them were multiple choice with
four options; two of them were multiple choice with two options; and one of them was short