Research 5

Source

Korean students least happy in OECD

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/05/113_86432.html

My topic

Every elementary schools should not give lessons with ability grouping.

What I hope to learn from this source

I want to figure out that Korean students have lowest happiness degree in OECD nations. Also, I want to figure out that this result is caused by their academic stress.

Notes

1. the Korea Bang Jeong-hwan Foundation and Social Development Institute at Yonsei University said Korean's "subject" happiness index came to 65.98 points in 2011, the lowest among 23 OECD member countries for the third year in a row.

2.  It is result from 6410 elementary, middle and high school students across the country.

3. The foundation said the subject happiness index is calculated by taking six aspects into account — subjective health, degree of satisfaction with school life, degree of satisfaction with quality of life, sense of belonging, adaptability to environment and degree of loneliness. 4. A researcher of the foundation said Korean students’ relative happiness is low because they are under greater pressure to study, having little time to spend time with their friends and family.

Final thoughts

This research can support my narration. It can show that Korean students are suffered from studying, and it results the lowest happiness degree in OECD nations.