Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Experiment
In this experiment, there were three groups-two being the experimental groups and the other was the control group. The control group was the group that was trying to see how easy it was to pronounce the sentences because this had little, if any, to do with trying to learn about the sentences. The two experimental groups were the ones trying to visualize and understand the sentences because they were trying to learn what the sentences were doing or saying. The results proved this perfectly because the "pronunciation group" scored the least, the "understanding group" scored the second highest, and the "visualizing group" scored the most. The visualizing group scored the most because they were actually picturing what was going on in the sentences, which enabled them to remember the characters and features of the sentences better. The independent variable(s) were the differences in the questions-how easy to pronounce, understand, or visualize the sentences. And the dependent variable was the number of answers the students answered correctly. Because the teacher knew the outcome of the experiment, and the students did not, this would be classified as a single-blind experiment. Obviously, visualizing information is the best way to retain information which has also been proven in scientific studies that are more in-depth than this.
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