Update

Hey Guys,

I am sorry I haven't told you anything new for a while. We are very busy here wrapping up senior year. However, I have a lot of great news to share about our research!

Last time we spoke, I was telling you all about how Mrs. Redmond was letting me help with her seventh grade logic class. It was so much fun to teach the kids for a whole fifty minutes. It was definitely a big commitment though, teaching takes a lot of planning and preparation. The good news is that i was able to collect a lot of data because I ended up teaching every seventh grader. Working with Mrs. Redmond was one of the last times that I collected data. Now I am working with Mr. Bayer and all our previous data.

Our final presentations are approaching fast. Since we only have about a week left in our projects, I have created a power-point to display all of my data points. Mr. Bayer and I are discussing whether or not to give his students a whole new set of quizzes in order to determine the long term effect of the different lessons. We considered giving the kids the same quizzes that they took before, scrambled of course, but we are not certain. The AP Euro kids already took the final exam, and the AP World kids take their test this Thursday. I feel like if we were to give them quizzes now, the data would not be accurate because the kids have either mentally signed out of history class, or they are so focused on the AP test that they won't take the quizzes with the same mindset as they would on a normal day. But we are still discussing it.

This will be a shorter post, because we are all wrapping up our projects. My presentation is for the most part done, but I still have to do some polishing and fine tuning. Tomorrow I will present my draft power-point to the administrators here in order to be approved for the final presentation in front of the community. I will try and see if I can somehow post my presentation onto this blog in case any of you wanted to see it.

I'll keep you all updated on how my data interpretation goes. Till next time!