carly legg st. mary’s college of maryland mat 2013
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Exploring the Outdoors: Using Outdoors Education to Increase Relevance, Interest, and Academic Achievement in Elementary School Mathematics. Carly Legg St. Mary’s College of Maryland MAT 2013. The Central Questions. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Carly LeggSt. Mary’s College of Maryland
MAT 2013
Exploring the Outdoors: Using Outdoors Education to Increase
Relevance, Interest, and Academic Achievement in Elementary School
Mathematics.
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How can we make this standardized material relevant to our students’ lives in a way that is manageable for the teacher?
Additionally, how can we use available resources to improve our students’ academic performance?
The Central Questions
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Why should we use outdoors instruction?
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Why Math?
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Research Questions
Attention
Perceived Relevance
ContentKnowledge
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION
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• Hollywood Elementary Schoolo About 500 students
• Predominantly Whiteo 82% White
• Diverse Socio Economicallyo About 26% of students qualify for free and reduced lunch
• Fourth Gradeo 27 studentso 24 out of 27 students identify as whiteo 13 girls and 14 boys o 3 students in my class who carry Language Arts (IEPs)o 1 student who has an IEP consult, o 3 students with 504 plans.
Sample and School Site
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Ten Lesson UnitOutdoor ExcursionsThree Instruments:
Methods
Behavioral Checklist
Affective Scale
Content Exam
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• Significant decrease in instances of observed inattentive behavior (p < .001)
• There was an increase in how likely students ranked that they were to use math outside of school that approached significance (p = .062)
• Increase in content exam scores (p < .001)
PreIntervention
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p value
Attention 3 .19p
< .001
Relevance 3.46 3.74p
= .062
Academic Achievement
56.19% 79.85%p
< .001
Findings Overview
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• There was not a significant increase in attentive behaviorso Inter-rater reliabilityo Problems with the instrument
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Pre-Intervenion Inattentive Be-haviors
Post-Intervention Inattentive Be-haviors
Inattentive Behaviors
Attention
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• There was not a significant increase in students’ overall perception of how relevant math was to their lives (p=0.322).o Problems with the instrument
Students’ Overall Perception of the Relevance of Math in their
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Students’ perception that they will use math outside of school
Relevance
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There was a significant increase in students’ content exam scores.
• What does this mean?
Academic Achievement
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• My findings supported the body of research on the matter• Outdoors instruction is a viable way to teach mathematics• Outdoors instruction made math more enjoyable to teach• Students were eager to complete the assignments associated with
the excursions
What does it all mean?
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• How does outdoors instruction affect teachers’ perception of their teaching effectiveness?
• How does outdoors instruction affect teachers’ enjoyment of the subjects they are teaching?
Future Research
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Questions?