Can+students+remember+the+text+better+if+it+is+highlighted+or+black-and-white?-+Sophie,+Kate,+Abby


 * Highlighted! **
 * Do students read and remember what they are reading better if the text is highlighted in color or if the text is in plain black and white? **


 * 12 people 6 girls 6 boys **
 * Black and White- **
 * Nick Gun **** ther **
 * Jake McFarland **
 * Dylan Manfreddi **
 * Lauren Dowell **
 * Color- **
 * Ashley Davis **
 * Ma'Kyla Thompson **
 * Bret Leupen **
 * Ben Sommer **
 * Scott Wolfe **
 * Sandi Malone **


 * Hypothesis- Our hypothesis is that the people with color would do better than the people who are reading the text in black and white. **


 * Procedure- We found a short story in the language arts book and we took the story and we printed it out. We also took the questions from the book and printed it out too. We are having them answer questions 1-4 in the questions. To highlight the passage we highlighted all of them in the same color and in the same pattern. Every sentence is highlighted in a different color. The colors were pink, orange, and yellow. **


 * Observations- We thought we were going to start out with only about 6 people but then we soon found out that we needed more people to test because some people didn’t even try and read the passage and they weren’t putting any effort into trying to answer the questions. The different colors in all of the different sentences might have distracted the readers next time we should just highlight the text in just one color and see what happens. **


 * Recommendations- We are giving recommendations about whether you should highlight the passages students read or if you should leave the passage black and white. We recommend that teachers keep the text the way it is like black and white instead of making the text highlighted. We found that having the text highlighted in color might have distracted the readers from the reading they were supposed to be reading. **


 * Conclusions- **
 * Black and white- 12/21 **
 * Color- 9/21 **
 * We found out that our hypothesis was wrong. We found out by the tests that the people who read the black and white text instead of the color. We think that the color text might have distracted the readers and we think that is what messed them up. **


 * IV- one of the passages will be black and white and the other passage is going to be highlighted in color **
 * DV- It is going to show if you can remember it better and if they can get more out of it if they read the passage in color more than black and white. **
 * CV- same reading **
 * CV- same quiz **
 * CV- same questions **


 * By: Kate Seibert, Sophie Yungblut, and Abby Stuart **