Psychology

Hypothesis
Students who have higher grades are more likely to be chosen to participate in extracurricular activities or after school clubs as compared to those with records lower grades due to assumption that those with higher grades have the ability to prioritize evenly.

This assumption is important for two reasons  one, in the event that the hypothesis is proven to be valid, the author can make recommendations on how students with high grades can efficiently manage their time while performing excellent on extracurricular activities, and two, make some recommendation wherein those with lower grades can be given assistance on how can they manage academics and extracurricular activities at the same time.

Review of Literature
A study by Carl Schessler (2004) titled The Correlation between Extracurricular Activities and Grade Point Average of Middle School Students aims to identify the correlation of the students examination grade points in relation to their participation on extracurricular activities.  Among the factors considered in this study are the students ages, extracurricular participation, and their GPA (grade point average).  The experimental study took 111 students from three different rural Midwestern eight grade classes as its subjects.  A two-way Analysis of Variance is used to study the correlations of the variables.  As a result, the author found significant relationship between extracurricular activities and the students GPA.  Findings suggests that there is no evidence that the students participation in such activities led to the lowering of their grades, in fact, it was found out that those who participate in extracurricular activities recorded higher grades than usual.  As a conclusion, such effect is understood to be brought by the students encouragement to excel in academics and the teachers and parents bias towards them.

Research Design
This research will use experimental methodologies in determining whether grades serve as bases for student selection on extracurricular activities or after school clubs.  The independent variable is the teachers knowledge on the grades of the students while the dependent variables are the grades of the students for those who are selected to participate on clubs.  Since this research proposal will seek to identify relationship, correlation techniques will be used.  In this case, quasi experimental methods will be used such as the most common non-equivalent group design wherein the researcher will conduct a pre-test and  post-test among the participants.  To closely analyze the results, it is recommended that the experiment will be initialized on small rural or urban schools.

Budget
Among the expenses that may be incurred in pursuing this research would be
Transportation costs
Costs of activities for the clubs (extracurricular costs)
Professional fees for consultation
Since this study will only accommodate small group of respondents, it is anticipated that costs are only minimal.