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Running head: EFFECTS OF PREGNANY

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EFFECTS OF PREGNANCY

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Toi Haynes

Old Dominion University

Effects of Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancies occur in females ages 20 and under. Several changes come with pregnancy, whether it is physically, socially, mentally, emotionally or academically. Comment by Author: Required to have 7 references throughout the paper (technically should give no points for the paper, but giving you a zero for this section instead) -20 points Lit review is too short – see rubric and example papers and feedback from earlier Intro draft

These changes create life-changes for the mother and those around her. One change that an expectant mother may experience is a struggle to complete her education. Many females are faced with confusion, fear, judgement, and resentment from their peers, teachers, and school officials. Receiving stigma from these individuals can change the students’ views on their educational experience. Depending on what is said about them, the mothers may not feel like they are good enough. They might drop out of school and attend to their child(ren) full-time. There is a positive relationship between teenage pregnancy and academic effects.

Methods Comment by Author: -10 points – inadequate description of materials (need quantitative measures) – proposed analysis should be its own section Proposed analyses -10 You propose a t-test, but say your participants are pregnant students (this is only one group). Another sentence says that you have three groups (which would require an ANOVA) Comment by Author: APA Comment by Author: I coped your former method section feedback, since it seems to be the same

A qualitative research design was used in this study to explore the impact of teenage pregnancy on academics. This method was the best way to collect data in a face-to-face setting by interacting with the teens. The selection of participants was not difficult. This was attained by recording the unique experiences of expectant mothers on academic attainment. The study's objective was to give information that will boost the theoretical results, for example, dropout and educational achievement of the population described above. To carry out this research, scientific and statistical methods and analyses have been used to study. This method helps the researcher interrogate the participants in getting their experiences to understand the study's core and discover how participants position themselves. The research is entrenched in a dangerous race hypothetical alignment. The importance is set on the systematic discrimination and general bias and coercion that African American and Latino teenage girls come across. It is also placed on giving school psychoanalysts with endorsements for cultivating education accomplishment for expectant girls (Luttrell, 2011). A snowball sampling technique was applied to choose participants for the research. Using the snowball sampling method, primary participants were recognized and interrogated; in addition, pregnant schoolgirls were identified as parenting status or pregnant and interested in the research. Issuing questionnaires is another technique applied where the affected participants were given written questions to fill the questionnaires that could be used to understand how the pregnancy affected them academically. The study procedure included a hundred people interviews to fold rich evidence. Data analysis was completed manually utilizing thematic scrutiny. A thematic investigation is a technique of classifying, analyzing, and reporting themes with information. The thematic analysis gives report experiences, realities, and the meaning of participants. Statistical operations were carried out in this section to determine how teenage pregnancy affects students' performance in school academics. Statistical performances such as T_ scores mean that standard deviation was a vital tool used to analyze the collected data (Solomon-Fears and Ronquillo 2015).

Descriptive statistics and academic performance are presented in the tables below. As expected, the study participants showed poor results, which is associated with the effects of teen pregnancy in schools. The results showed that girls who got pregnant constitute poor performance as all the three groups of the students posted inadequate means below average.

Method

A qualitative research design was use in this study to explore the impact of teenage pregnancy on academics. This method was the best way to collect data in a face-to-face setting by interacting with the teens. The selection of participants was not difficult. This was attained by recording the unique experiences of expectant mothers on academic attainment. The study's aim objective was to give information that will boost the theoretical results, for example, dropout and educational achievement of the population described above. To carry out this research, scientific and statistical methods and analyses have been used to study. This method helps the researcher interrogate the participants in getting their experiences to understand the study's core and discover how participants position themselves. The research is entrenched in a dangerous race hypothetical alignment. The importance is set on the systematic discrimination and general bias and coercion that African American and Latino teenage girls come across. It is also placed on giving school psychoanalysts with endorsements for cultivating education accomplishment for expectant girls (Luttrell, 2011). Focused sampling was applied in this research to select members who were to be involved in this study to describe the phenomenon being deliberated. A snowball sampling technique was applied to choose participants for the research. Using the snowball sampling method, primary participants were recognized and interrogated; in addition, pregnant schoolgirls were identified as parenting status or pregnant and interested in the research. Issuing questionnaires is another technique applied where the affected participants were given written questions to fill the questionnaires that could be used to understand how the pregnancy affected them academically. The study procedure included a hundred people interviews to fold rich evidence. Data analysis was completed manually utilizing thematic scrutiny. A thematic investigation is a technique of classifying, analyzing, and reporting themes with information. The thematic analysis gives report experiences, realities, and the meaning of participants. Statistical operations were carried out in this section to determine how teenage pregnancy affects students' performance in school academics. Statistical performances such as T_ scores mean that standard deviation was a vital tool used to analyze the collected data (Solomon-Fears and Ronquillo 2015).

Descriptive statistics and academic performance are presented in the tables below. As expected, the study participants showed poor results, which is associated with the effects of teen pregnancy in schools. The results showed that girls who got pregnant constitute poor performance as all the three groups of the students posted inadequate means below average.

References Azevedo, J. P., Favara, M., Haddock, S. E., López-Calva, L. F., Muller, M., & Perova, E. (2012).Teenage pregnancy and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean: teenagefertility decisions, poverty, and economic achievement. Luttrell, W. (2011). Where inequality lives in the body: Teenage pregnancy, public pedagogies,and individual lives. Sport, Education, and Society, 16(3), 295-308. Solomon-Fears, C., & Ronquillo, R. (2015). Teenage pregnancy prevention: Statistics and programs. Congressional Research Service.

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