WordPlay consist of 24 subjects who were recruited from a 6th-grade middle school class. They are students of a particular 6th-grade teacher so this is the only criteria. The demographics were obtained from a questionnaire that was administered to each subject.The participants consist of both boys and girls and a variety of ethnicities were represented such as Hispanic and Arabic.
WordPlay is an educational tool that can be used in the classroom to teach students new words; it was presented as an ordinary game to the subjects to avoid the results being skewed.The responses were observed for accuracy and speed which indicates an improvement in memory. The subjects were broken up into three groups, ELLS, IEPS, and Regular. For each group there were two trials each containing 4 students for a total of 24 subjects. Each group contained a mix of different gender and ethnicity, Spanish, Arabic, etc. After the grades for the exam were calculated, all subjects had an overall improvement that was proportionate to their group. Additionally, there were improvements in their personal score. There was greater overall improvement in the regular 6th-grade students score compared to the others. The results were exciting to observe since there was an improvement as a result of playing WordPlay.
FA 16 Project 6 Week 12
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