Does+highlighting+affect+the+reader's+understanding+of+a+passage?-+Ashley,+Anna


 * [[file:Reading Research.pptx]]Highlighting Research **
 * Does highlighting affect the reader’s understanding of a passage. **


 * RV: Understanding of a passage, test scores,and main idea statements **
 * MV: Highlighting or no highlighting **
 * CV: Number of Boys and girls (same age) **
 * CV: Passage **
 * CV: Test questions **
 * CV: Graders **
 * CV: highlighter color/size **


 * Hypothesis: The kids who highlight will get a better score, if they know how to highlight correctly. **


 * Plan: **
 * Steps for experiment: **
 * 1) ** Read steps for highlighting to students **
 * 2) ** Have one set of test subjects read an advanced passage WITHOUT highlighting **
 * 3) ** Then answer questions on a passage and create main idea/summary **
 * 4) ** Have next group read the same passage and highlight it **
 * 5) ** Then answer same questions and make a main idea/summary **
 * 6) ** Grade tests and main idea/summary **
 * 7) ** Record results **


 * Conclusions: The students who highlighted understood the passage better because they had a higher average test score, and a more detailed main idea than the kids who did not highlight. Also, the students knew how to highlighted, which the added to the score. **


 * Inferences: **
 * We think that the fact that the kids knew how to highlight gave them a better understanding. They did not just highlight the whole page. **


 * Recommendations: Teach the kids how to PROPERLY highlight important ideas!!! **
 * -read the passage and highlight key words and sentences that add to the main idea and help you understand the passage more **
 * -go through what you highlighted and pick out what will help you break down the passage and find a main idea statement **
 * -Don't highlight everything **
 * -Highlight only what you think is important **


 * Non Highighting Results: **


 * Megan- **
 * Passage 1 **
 * Main Idea: Scarlett has a lot of personalities (half) **
 * Question 1: Scarlett looked a lot different from her true identity (incorrect) **
 * Question 2: Becuase it kinda sounds like Scarlett is scared of her mother (correct) **


 * Passage 2 **
 * Main Idea: That tornadoes are dangerous and can go extremely fast (half) **
 * Question 1: A cloud that twists and turns violently (half) **
 * Question 2: A cloud circling going at high speed (half) **
 * Question 3: C (incorrect) **


 * Scott: **
 * Passage 1 **
 * Main Idea: Scarlett (incorrect) **
 * Question 1: Her personality escapades (half) **
 * Question 2: So she could seem good and nice (half) **


 * Passage 2: **
 * Main Idea: Tornadoes (half) **
 * Question 1: A highly moving wind tunnel touching a cloud (correct) **
 * Question 2: wind tunnels with speeds of 300 mph (correct) **
 * Question 3: D (correct) **


 * Damian: **
 * Passage 1 **
 * Main Idea: To know and experience the life or knowledge of a sixteen year old girl (incorrect) **
 * Question 1: They’ve helped Scarlett look “sweet, charming, and giddy” (incorrect) **
 * Question 2: She acted different because “for her mother could shame her to tears with a reproachful glance.” (correct) **


 * Passage 2 **
 * Main Idea: To learn the experiences of a tornado (incorrect) **
 * Question 1: It’s a cloud/funnel that’s caused by hot- cold weather mixing (correct) **
 * Question 2: it looks like a funnel cloud that’s coming/forming from the sky (correct) **
 * Question 3: D (correct) **


 * Michelle: **
 * Passage 1 **
 * Main Idea: They are describing the true identity of someone towards their mother(s) (incorrect) **
 * Question 1: Her real self (vain, self-willed & obstinate) (correct) **
 * Question 2: Because she didn’t want her mother to shame her (correct) **


 * Passage 2: **
 * Main Idea: To inform readers about tornadoes (half) **
 * Question 1: A tunnel shaped, wind spinning naturous thing that destroys anything in its path -_-. It goes many miles per hour (correct) **
 * Question 2: It is shaped like a tunnel and spirals down to a tip. (correct) **
 * Question 3: C (incorrect) **


 * Highlighting Results: **


 * Mary Anderson **
 * Passage 1: **
 * Main Idea: Scarlett is the main idea of the passage. Her and the fact that she is self willed, vain and obstinate ( correct) **
 * Question 1: Mammy an Ellen helped scarlett conceal the fact that she is self-willed, vain and obstinate.(correct) **
 * Question 2: Scarlett always showed her best face around her mother because her mother could “shame her to tears with a reproachful glance”(correct) **
 * Passage 2: **
 * Main Idea: Tornadoes and their aspects are the main idea of the passage (correct) **
 * Question 1:A tornado is a spiraling funnel that can go from 110 miles per hour to 300 miles per hour. (correct) **
 * Question 3: A tornado looks like a funnel spiraling with debris flying around it (correct) **
 * Question 4: C (incorrect) **


 * Her steps: **
 * -Highlighted what she thought could help her answer the questions **
 * Read the questions before reading the passage, **


 * Audrey Mooney **
 * Passage 1: **
 * Main Idea: Mammy and Ellen helped hide Scarlett’s mean personality with a sweet one. (correct) **
 * Question 1: Mammy and Ellen helped Scarlett conceal her self-willed, vain, and obstinate personality. (correct) **
 * Question 2: Scarlett wanted to show her good side because her mother made her very ashamed of herself. (correct) **
 * Passage 2: **
 * Main Idea: The description of a tornado (half) **
 * Question 1: A rotating column of air that spins very fast and is dangerous (correct) **
 * Question 2: A funnel circulating full of debris in it, twisting and turning as it sucks up more things. (correct) **
 * Question 3: D (correct) **


 * Steps taken: **
 * - passage 1: **
 * highlighted her personality description because that’s what she thought was important. Didnt know why she highlighted the “Irish Father “ part but thought that there must have been a reason why it was added in the passage **


 * Jack Anderson **
 * Passage 1: **
 * Main idea: Two friends of a girl named Ellen help Ellen conceal that she is a self-willed, vain, and obstinate from her mother. (half because the name is incorrect) **
 * Question 1 : That she was, in reality, “self-willed, vain, obstinate”(correct) **
 * Question 2: Her mother could and would “shame her to tears with a reproachful glance.” She had to appear sweet in order to prevent this. (correct) **
 * Passage 2: **
 * Main Idea: A tornado is a rotating column of air, usually in the shape of a funnel, which winds go less than 110 mph but can go up to 300 mph. (correct) **
 * Question 1: A tornado is a natural,destructive funnel of rotating winds that turn at a rapid speed. (correct) **
 * Question 2: A tornado is usually in the form of a funnel (half) **
 * Question 3: D (correct) **


 * Trevor Arrowood **
 * Passage 1: **[[file:Highlighting.docx]]
 * Main Idea: HOw Scarlett acts different in reality from when around her mother and Ellen (half) **
 * Question 1: Her escapades (half) **
 * Question 2: HEr mother could shame her to tears with a reproachful glance. **
 * Passage 2: **
 * Mian Idea: WHat a tornado is and looks like and other things about tornadoes (half) **
 * Question 1 : A tornado is a rotating column of air, part of a cumulonimbus cloud and touches the ground (correct) **
 * QUestion 2: A tornado looks like a huge funnel usually connected to the ground and surrounded by debris. (correct) **
 * Question 3: D (correct) **


 * For non highlighting there are no correct main ideas. The people who highlighted got a better average score. People who did not highlight had more incorrect answers....no one who didn’t highlight got a perfect score. For the highlighting quizzes, there was only one incorrect answer. There were 6 half points answers. For non highlighting, there were 8 incorrect answers and and 8 half points answers. The kids who highlighted did better. **


 * || Highlighting || No Highlighting ||
 * Correct Answers || 20 || 13 ||
 * Half Point Answers || 6 || 8 ||
 * Incorrect Answers || 1 || 8 ||
 * Average Score || 6 || 4 ||