Question
What type of relationships can be determined between extrinsic motivators/factors and faith based youth group attendance?
Foundational
What is the best method to take
accurate youth group attendance?
Summary
The best way to take accurate youth
group attendance is using a mixture
of technology and people. A
computer program, that counts
attendance and keeps attendance
statistics, is used that students can
check into each time they come to
an event. Volunteers are also
implemented at each entry point of
the event that welcome students
and encourage them to sign in.
Data Plan
Read 3-5 peer-reviewed or mentor
approved sources to determine
the best method to count youth
group attendance.
Foundational
Why is a faith based youth program important
to each student and the church?
Summary
A faith based youth program is important to
students because it creates a solid foundation
in their faith. This foundation is also very
important to the church because a solid
foundation makes a dedicated member for life.
This is important because the trend being
observed with millennials is people falling from
their faith as they reach their late twenties and
early thirties because the foundation is not
there to keep the person a believer their
whole life.
Data Plan
Read 3-5 peer-reviewed or mentor approved
sources to determine the importance of a
youth ministry program to a church.
Foundational
How do extrinsic motivators/incentives affect a faith based
youth group (weekly youth activities) attendance?
Summary
Youth group attendance fluctuates based upon the
students who are not strong in their faith. The ones with
deep intrinsic motivation will maintain consistent
attendance. There are two types of extrinsic motivators
that affect youth group attendance. One type are
motivators the youth ministry uses to pull students in such
as games and prizes. The other type of extrinsic motivators
are the ones that cause students not to come to youth
group such as too much school work or sports. These two
types of extrinsic motivators decide whether attendance
will rise or fall.
Data Plan
Read 7-10 peer-reviewed or approved sources to find the
extrinsic motivators that influence youth group attendance
across the world.
Applied
What factors do students report as making
a difference to their decision to attend
youth group or not?
Hypothesis
Students report lack of time and other
priorities as the most frequently cited
factor categories for not attending a youth
group event.
Independent variable: Lack of time and
other priorities
Dependent Variable: Attending a youth
group event
Data Plan
Conduct a survey at a large youth group
event at RUMC that tests different negative
extrinsic factors that may affect youth
group attendance. The first part of the
survey will address demographics. The
second part of the survey will address
possible situations where the student
chooses if they would attend youth group
or not, and the third part would have each
student rate each factor on a scale of 0-10
on how likely it is to effect their
attendance.