Does+summarizing+help+your+comprehension?-+Collin,+Nick,+Maddie,+Ben

= **SCIENCE EXPERIMENT REPORT** =


 * Research Question****-** Does summarizing help your comprehension?

**Manipulated Variable-** Whether the students are summarizing or not.

**Responding Variable-** Comprehension.


 * Hypothesis-** The people who summarized the reading will answer the question more accurately.


 * Question the Kid is Being Asked-** Name three things the garbage did.


 * Our Definition of Summarizing-** Summarize in 10 words or less.

1. Get five randomly selected boys and five randomly selected girls from Ms. Kelly's second period Language Arts class. (Bring two at a time) 2. Have the two kids read a passage __Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out__. 3. After reading, one kid will summarize the passage in 10 words or less and answer the question and the other kid will just answer the question without summarizing. 4. Repeat this four times.
 * Procedure-**


 * Controlled Variables-** The passage the students are reading and the question the students are answering.


 * Observations-** Our group noticed that the students who summarized the passage effectively, wrote down three of the things the garbage did accurately.

but the students who summarized were most accurate. Our hypothesis was right because this is what we predicted.
 * Conclusion-** In conclusion, the students who summarized the passage answers were the most accurate. Students who didn't summarize the passage answers were somewhat accurate


 * Inferences about Conclusion-** Summarizing somewhat helps comprehension.

For students: If you have an assignment on comprehension then you might not need to summarize what you're reading because it doesn't have much of an effect on comprehension.
 * Recommendations-** For teachers: Summarizing somewhat helps comprehension so if you're doing a lesson on comprehension you might need to put summarizing in it.