Does+taking+notes+on+a+selection+improve+a+grade+on+a+test+over+the+selection?-+Scott,+Jeff,+Jake

  Does taking notes on a selection improve a grade on a test over the selection ? **Manipulated variable: Does taking or not taking notes on a passage affect the score on the test? ** **Responding variable: The scores on the test or quiz over the selection. ** **Hypothesis or Hypotheses: Taking notes on a test or a quiz will improve your grade on the test? ** **Plan or Procedures: Make people take a test over a passage with or without notes they took and have them answer the questions over the passage. ** **Controlled variable(s): The same test in the same room and the same space between people when testing and the same space for notes on the passage. ** **Observations, Data tables, and graphs: the people that took the test did worse on the test than the people who didn't take notes on the test and people with notes averaged a 4/6 and the people who didn't take notes averaged a 5/6 on the test. ** **Conclusion(s): Taking notes does not help very much because you skim through to find the notes in the passage and not thoroughly read the passage. ** **Inference(s) about Conclusion(s): That if you take notes on a test you do not even read the the passage thoroughly and do not read the passage well lowering the ability to find the answers. ** ** Recommendation (s): If you are to take notes on a passage, make sure you actually read the passage while taking the notes and not just skim the passage looking for main idea's to take note of. **