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CSEF · 2006

Girls Are Better Readers! (...Or Are They?)

Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals To statistically test whether gender accounts for differences in reading scores at Santa Fe Christian (SFC) school between grades 1 and 3. My hypothesis was that there were…

CSEF · 2006

Homework Helper?

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out if playing the video game "Battlefront 2" affects 5th and 6th grade boys' math abilities after school. Methods/Materials First, I invite two kids…

CSEF · 2006

How Fast Are You?

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is investigate whether there is a relationship between the speed of a person's eye-hand coordination, and the amount of time they play video ga…

CSEF · 2006

Information Overload: Can You Multitask?

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals I tested to see whether or not people can multitask and if they can, I want to know how it affects the quality and quantity of their work. Methods/Materials Using four simil…

CSEF · 2006

In the Blink of an Eye

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals In this continuation project from our study on the effects of blinking on vision while reading and working on the computer, we sought to determine if the vision of soft cont…

CSEF · 2006

It's White, Right?

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals It's White, Right? is an experiment to test the mental flexibility of a person by asking him or her to say the color of the text of a word while suppressing his or her readi…

CSEF · 2006

Josie and the Hypnocats

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find if subliminal messages can affect the brain and its everyday functions. For this project, I predict that subliminal messages will af…

CSEF · 2006

Learning Styles

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the similarities and differences in learning styles(Tactile Kinesthetic, Visual and/or Auditory) between students and their teachers affect the ac…

CSEF · 2006

Memory

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals Learning is the main objective in the classroom, but with the current methods of teaching this can at times be a more difficult task than it need be. The purpose of this exp…

CSEF · 2006

Memory Lane

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether adults remember information better by hearing it spoken, or by hearing it sung in a familiar tune. I believe that the ad…

CSEF · 2006

Musical Stimulation for the Brain

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if playing a musical instrument is more correlated with higher IQ than listening to music by comparing test scores between a group that perform…

CSEF · 2006

Oscitancy: Is It Contagious?

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to determine whether yawning (oscitancy) is contagious in children. Methods/Materials Informed consent from each participant in the exper…

CSEF · 2006

Penny Candy vs. Dime Candy

Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The goal of my project, Penny Candy vs. Dime Candy, was to determine if kids, ages 7-12 years, are more likely to choose one candy (labeled 'Dime Candy') over another identi…

CSEF · 2006

Perception of Randomness

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals How does human perception of randomness compare to real randomness? Can people accurately simulate a string of random coin flips, or will they alternate between heads and ta…

CSEF · 2006

See This!

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if illustrations enhance a child#s comprehension of a reading passage, and if so which type of child, (struggling reader, average…

CSEF · 2006

Short Term Memory: Girls vs. Boys

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine what types of short term memory, boys and girls ould remember, and how much they would remember in total. Methods/Materials I used groups of between…

CSEF · 2006

Snooze or Lose

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals Our goal was to discover if the amount of sleep a person gets effects their ability to memorize and compute problems Methods/Materials We chose 4 6th grade students to parti…

CSEF · 2006

Step It Up: A Study of Music and Exercise

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals In my experiment I ruminated on whether the tempo of music affects aerobic exercise. If so, then music with more beats per minute will increase the number of steps a person…

CSEF · 2006

Subliminal Influence

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals Advertisers have used subliminal messages for years to try to influence people into buying products. In a video, the images flash by so fast that you are not consciously awa…

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