First, our presentation, then this blog shall be moving backwards...

Our group, who's topic was "Large v. Small schools; Which does the better job?" consisted of Sarah, Alexis, Boby, and me. My role in the project was first, to do a portion of the surveys--I did 12 surveys in the international population of our school, and Boby did the rest of the 25 (Alexis and Sarah split the national students.) We chose Panera for our meeting place, where, in our fist session, we decided on the large versus small school debate, and wrote up a draft of the questions we wanted to ask. Then we wondered if school systems in other countries were the same as ours, and how international students thought of the large v. small school debate, and also how they thought of their high school years (or equivalent) and whether or not they learned during said years.
So we distributed the survey, catching the interntionals as they sat down to eat, and got them all back to Boby, who put the information together into an excel spreadsheet. Sarah and Alexis did found the articles for the research, while Boby and I did took care of the technological aspects of the project. We all met in my dorm room to put our information together, and made the collaborated on the powerpoint. We all discussed our information and decided what we would put in and what we would leave out, and I took care of the actual making of the powerpoint.
The most enjoyable aspect of the research was the actual work with the surveys, and getting everyone's opinion on their schooling, though many of the internationals said that the questions were not well geared toward their educational experience, and that they didn't feel that some of the questions applied to them. One of the things we found most surprising was the drug usage in other countries, how it really didn't exist. One theory was that all the drugs get sold overseas so that the U.S. can buy them, but that was said in jest... It would make sense, though, that drug usage would be higher in countries that could readily afford them, such as the United States, than in smaller or less prosperous contries. Also, maybe, the students that can afford to come here from their home countries have different backgrounds than those who couldn't? It may be worth investigating, but probably for someone more passionate about the subject of education than I... -_-
I personally hypothesized that large schools would generally be preferred to smaller schools, but only becuase I had such a good high school myself! Central was "diversified," I guess you could say, and we had very good relationships between students (of the same grades and between grades) and teachers. There were so many classes, and most of the teachers were very passionate about their individual subjects.