Will+a+student's+quiz+score+become+more+accurate+after+reading+a+passage+if+they+read+aloud,+take+notes,or+highlight?-+Alex,+Emily,+Luke

__ Science Reading Research Project __

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** 4. ** Address to the students that they may begin reading and when reading is completed, begin the quiz.
====***While students are reading and taking the quiz, make observations and take notes on their behavior and actions. Taking pictures, without disrupting the students, may be helpful to include in your final product.====

** Results: (patterns & trends, interesting material )**
====After running our experiment and collecting all of our data from the students we tested, we found an answer to our question. We found that the average quiz score for note taking was 88%. The average quiz score for highlighting was 80%. And the average quiz score for reading aloud was also 88%. So, we found that note taking and-or highlighting are beneficial to do while reading a passage if you have to take a quiz on the reading passage.====

====** Problems: (Did any problems occur in your study? What did you do to fix them? If you did not get the chance to fix them, what would you have done to fix the problems in your study?) **Controlling our variables for our science experiment was the only problem we ran into when running our experiment. Before we even began testing our experiment we had named and written out all of the variables that we needed to control, in order to make our experiment outcome have accurate data and results. When it came time to run our experiment controlling our variables was very hard. For one thing, we were not able to collect students with certain percentages in Language Arts, to control our grade variable, because it was confidential information. What we ended up doing was asking each student we tested if they were comfortable sharing their Language Arts grade. It turned out that all of the students we tested had As in Language Arts. This was a broader range, but it was the only way we were able to control the //grade// variable. Quiet settings and testing rooms were in high demand between classmates and it was a struggle to have our students testing in the same evironment everyday. Everyday we ended up getting one of two classrooms, so there were only two environments that our students were testing in overall. Narrowing the number of testing rooms down to two was the best we could do to control the //same environment// variable. Another problem we had when running our experiment, was not only trying to keep our number of testing rooms limited, but finding a quiet testing environment. Many people who were running tests ended up doing it in the hallway. This was a huge problem for us because the more people in the hallway the louder the volume level rose and this was a variable that was crucial to accurate data for our experiment.====

**Conclusion:**
==== After examining all of our results, we concluded that note taking and reading aloud are the most useful reading strategies. Both of these reading strategies allow students to score about an 88% as a quiz score after reading a reading passage. Overall, students who used note taking or reading aloud as reading strategies, scored an average of 88% on the quiz, which means that taking notes and reading aloud are the most beneficial to an accurate quiz score. ====

**Recommendation(s):**
====**Teachers -** We recommend that you allow students to either take notes or read aloud whenever they take a quiz based off of a reading passage, because our study proves that taking notes and reading aloud have positive impacts on the students' quiz grades.==== ====**Students -** We recommend that you use the either note taking or reading aloud as a reading strategy when given a quiz based off of a reading passage, becasue our study proves thatnote taking and reading aloud both have positive impacts on students' quiz grades.====