Will+highlighting+effect+the+way+you+comprehend+readings?-+Polina,+Cierra

__** Will Highlighting Affect your Comprehension on Reading? **__  **//Manipulated Variable://** Highlighting selection of a paragraph or not highlighting selections **//Controlled Variables://** Green highlighters, every person reads the same selections, 3 boys and 3 girls, a certain selection of the hallway, reread the highlighting sections, everyone receives the same quizzes. **//Responding Variable://** highlighting affect your comprehension in reading or not. Hypothesis: If we test the volunteers highlighting skills with their comprehension, then we will know if highlighting helps, because the grades we get from the quizzes determine how much they understand.


 * // Procedure: //** I take a random boy and girl into a section in the hallway. They each receive the same selection about Africa. They then read the article. When they are done they give us the reading, and then take a 5 question quiz. When they have finished the quiz, they then tell us they need the other reading. This time the reading is to be highlighted. At any point while reading, the volunteer can highlight any important reading information. The read the highlighting sections then give us the paper. They receive yet another 5 question quiz. Once they have finished, they may leave the hallway. After grading all of the 12 quizzes I have reached this conclusion.

**// Observations: //** While watching the volunteers read the articles they would try to find some way to stop reading. If there was the tiniest noise, they would stop reading. Also some of them weren’t paying much attention to the reading itself, only about how quick they could get done. **// Conclusion: //** The most common grade for 7th graders highlighting a selection than taking a quiz in 3/5. The most common grade for 7th graders reading a passage then taking a quiz is 2/5. This means that 7th graders improve a little by taking a quiz after highlighting. **// Recommendations: //** I would recommend that teachers allow kids to highlight on their reading as long as they don’t highlight random words. If they highlight random words, they should be stopped and allowed to only read, no highlighting involved. The reason is that if they do not highlight properly, they don’t know how to highlight correctly and will highlight too many words.
 * Gender ||  Africa (No highlighting)  ||  Europe (highlighting)  ||
 * Female ||  2/5  ||  2/5  ||
 * Female ||  2/5  ||  3/5  ||
 * Female ||  4/5  ||  3/5  ||
 * Male ||  2/5  ||  2/5  ||
 * Male ||  2/5  ||  3/5  ||
 * Male ||  3/5  ||  4/5  ||