Some weeknesses in this study may include, but are not
limited to, responce bias. There were people who circled more
than one response on the anonymous survey sheets that were given
out. There might have been people who circled random numbers,
without even reading the question. The question for teachers was
phrased that a 10 on the disrespectfulness scale was enough to
be "white button'd," or sent to the office, and one teacher
actually wrote on their survey that, "It should be a ten, but I
don't feel it's necessary to bother the administration with it,"
which leads me to believe that this may be true of some other
teachers; that they think it should be ten of disrespectfulness,
but wrote differently, b/c of how I phrased the question. '
The strictness of a teacher may confound the variables. For
example, if a teacher is very strict, in general, he or she may
rank the two disrespectfulnesses as very high, where if they are
more lenient, in general, they might rank them as much lower.
Also the type of teacher may confound with the ranking. In my
personal experiences, Math and Science teachers have tended to
allow talking/sleeping, much more so than Language/Social
Studies teachers, but that may be a biased statement based
purely off of my previous teachers.
I feel that, because this is a simple random sample of student and teachers, from North Olmsted High School students and teachers, these results can easily be extrapolated to the population of North Olmsted High School. Also accross the world students and teachers tend to act in similar ways, and to teach similar ways, respectively, and students tend to view their teachers the same, you MIGHT even be able to say that this data can be extrapolated to more schools in the surrounding areas, and even around the country, or world, despite the fact that it is a very small sample in comparison to the numbers of teachers and students in the world.
If you are planning on carrying out any further work in this feild, I would recommend perhaps using a larger sample size, and perhaps going around with your surveys, in order to make sure that you get them all back, because I got back many less surveys than I sent out, and this was further response bias, because that means that I didn't get the opinions of those who were too lazy - probably talking to friends, or sleeping - to fill out and return my surveys.
