How+does+the+amount+of+highlighting+affect+comprehension?-+Adam,+Sophia,+Ben,+Carly

IV: Highlighting DV: Comprehension CV: Everyone has same text CV: Same Comprehension Text CV: Same highlighting color CV: Same reading level between people
 *  Variables: **


 * Experiment __Steps__: **
 * 1) Get 3 girls and 3 boys of the same reading level. Mrs. Kelly provided the __students__ for our experiment
 * 2) Give them the reading and a yellow highlighter. Instruct __students__ to put their name on the text
 * 3) Tell them to highlight what they think is important details. We gave no descriptions, we just asked them to highlight anything they found important
 * 4) When they finish reading, they will come up and turn in their highlighted texts and pick up a test questions. __Students__ will not be allowed to refer back to the reading while doing these comprehension questions.
 * 5) After the __students__ have finished, cohort teams will meet and discuss/compare the results.

**Question: **  How does the amount of highlighting affect __students__ comprehension?

**Hypothesis: **  If you highlight a lot then you will not comprehend as well because you will try to remember too much and not the key details and main __idea__.

**Problem: ** The article was a reading that we had already studied in class earlier this year. We didn't realize it until we were giving the reading to the test subjects. We believe that because everyone had already read the reading in class, it would affect the amount of highlighting the students did and how they answered the questions.

**How We Fixed It: **  We are deciding to perform another experiment with the same test subjects. This time, we will be using a different reading that no class has discussed yet. We will __compare__ the results from the first test to the new one. **CHANGE:** We tried to perform the re-test with a different reading, but it didn't __work__. Everyone on the team was __working__ on their projects, and it was difficult to find the students we used as test subjects the first time, and one of them couldn't even come for 5 minutes to take another test for us. Two of the test subjects left the room while in the middle of the procedure, and when they came back they highlighted random things. Most of the students didn't finish. We decided not to carry out the re-test.

**Conclusions:** Our hypothesis was incorrect and there is not an exact answer to highlighting and comprehension. All students are different and comprehend differently. If you did want to calculate the amount of highlighting on comprehension it should be done on an individual basis instead if a whole group conclusion. **Inference(s) about Conclusion(s):** Calculating the amount of highlighting done by students and their comprehension should be done individually because each person comprehends differently and uses different strategies. **Recommendation(s):**
 * Results: **
 * **Student** || **Test Score** || **Words Highlighted** ||
 * Student 1 (girl) || 5/6 = 83% || 330 ||
 * Student 2 (boy) || 6/6 = 100% || 273 ||
 * Student 3 (girl) || 6/6 = 100% || 139 ||
 * Student 4 (girl) || 6/6 = 100% || 290 ||
 * Student 5 (boy) || 6/6 = 100% || 394 ||
 * Student 6 (boy) || 5/6 = 83% || 94 ||
 * Highlight as much as you think is necessary (Don't just highlight random things).
 * After our experiment we read through //Reading Strategies for College and Beyond by: Dr. Deborah J. Kellner,// and found that a good strategy for highlighting is to highlight the main __idea__ of a section. From there you want to continue to highlight two supporting details of your main __idea__. This should give you a good basis of understanding for that particular section.