Testing Teaching Styles

Overview

Objectives/Goals This project attempted to find a thorough and efficient method for teaching writing. Methods/Materials To perform this experiment, 572 middle school students (22 classrooms) were divided into 3 groups by classroom (lecture, collaboration, and control), each of which were exposed to either 10 minutes of a specific teaching style or no teaching style (control). The lecture group was presented with a lecture on how to write and organize a research paper, and the collaboration group divided into teams to complete an activity on the same topic (Appendix 1). Then each student (including the control group) was given a test to gauge their knowledge of the topic (Appendix 2), and the scores of these tests were compared. Results Average Percent Correct by Teaching Style: Control -- 53.25% Collaboration -- 60.26% Lecture -- 58.50% Conclusions/Discussion The difference between the average scores for the lecture group and the collaboration group are not statistically significant and therefore do not support the hypothesis.

Competition history

• CSEF 2014 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry S0419

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