Data Collection Summary

Part 1:
1. The topic is leadership and what leadership qualities it takes to become a good
leader. I hope to confirm that it takes consistency in a Champion to make a
student organization run and grow.
2. I am not using a survey, I have an alternate data collection method of examining
yearbooks for club records as well as contacting clubs for there records.
3. The intended audiences are students and teacher. This is so they are both able to
see that a Champion is vital to a student organization.
Part 3:
Some limitations to my data collection included the quality of the school
yearbook year to year. Some years there was some information left out or pieces
of information inconsistently included.
Analysis1. FBLA has the longest standing faculty advisor of any club looked at, and they
currently have the largest club membership.
2. In NAHS, when new advisors would come in, membership always declined.
3. In NAHS, after the initial decline, typically membership would steadily grow.
4. Literary Magazine had the most number of changes in advisors and their
membership numbers were consistently the smallest.
5. In Literary Magazine, as in NAHS, when new advisors would come in,
membership always declined from the previous year.
6. Ecology was only in existence three other years before Mrs. Lower took over as
advisor.
7. Mrs. Lower, the second longest raining advisor observed, grew club membership
to the second largest the of the membership numbers of clubs observed.
8. Ms. Werking and Ms. Molfino of NAHS are the only advisors to never increase in
membership, and only decrease membership, over their time as advisors.
9. The largest membership increase in consecutive years was made by Ms. Waters
from 2011 to 2012. The increase was from 43 to 250 people, and increase of 207
people.
10. The largest membership increase in consecutive years, not including the two
longest raining advisors Ms. Waters and Ms. Lower, was made by Ms. Furst of
NAHS. The increase was from 8 to 40 people, an increase of 32 people.

Overall FindingsThe most successful Champions are those who invest the most time, measured in
number of years. Ms. Waters and Ms. Lower were the most successful Champions of
their clubs, and by being Champions the longest; they achieved the two highest student
membership numbers. On the other side, the club with the most varied Champion
leadership over the years, Literary Magazine, was consistently the smallest club
membership out of the clubs evaluated. It can also be noted that for the most part, any
Champion in place for some amount of consecutive years, is going to increase club
membership by some amount. However, no club, except the clubs run by Ms. Lower and
Ms. Waters ever experienced a membership jump from year to year that ever exceeded 32
people at the most.

Where to go from here.

I would now like to conduct surveys of staff members who have been at the school for
most of the time that Ms. Lower and Ms. Waters were in charge to evaluate them as
Champions, and Ms. Lower as an environmental leader specifically.