Who Remembers Their Math and Science?

Overview

Objectives/Goals The researcher wants to test adults on a math and science test and be able to decipher the results and their meanings. Methods/Materials Binder No. 2 Pencil Microsoft Excel TM Data Tables Stopwatch Ten question multiple choice test covering middle school math and science, which is half math and half science 100 Adult Subjects Table Clipboard Pen Answer key to test Consent form which has spaces for graduating year, years of college, occupation, gender, major, signature and name. Results Engineers scored the highest according to their occupation, male scored higher than females, science majors scored the highest out of all majors, adults who went to four years of college or more tended to do better than those who did less, and it did not matter whether you graduated college in nineteen fifty or whether you graduated in two thousand and nine. Conclusions/Discussion In the end this project was very succesful. The researcher got the results that he wanted to, he was able to explain them, and the results were valid.

Awards (1)

• Honorable Mention

Competition history

• CSEF 2010 Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) · Entry J0615

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