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Faculty Teaching & Learning

Academy Research Project

Friday, May 18, 2012


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Research Background

Project: to incorporate Reading

Apprenticeship (RA) concepts and techniques

in the classroom.

Goal: to examine the effectiveness of the RA

approach in improving students reading

comprehension and metacognitive

awareness.


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About LAHC Faculty

Hale Savard: English

Shazia Khan: Developmental Communications(Dev Com)


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Data Collection Tools

Pre-Test: an RA CERA with questions

consisting of comprehension questions and

metacognitive awareness questions.

Post-Test: the same CERA with different a

different reading passage and poem.


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1. In your own words, write a short (one or

two sentences) summary of this reading.2. What kinds of things were happening in

your mind as you read this?

3. What part or parts of the reading wereconfusing or difficult for you, and why?

4. What did you do to help yourself

understand the confusing and difficult

parts?


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Results

Common responses in the pre and

posttest:

Rereading over and over (#4)Picturing mentally and placing

themselves in the situation (#2)


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Dev Com 020: Focus Students

Roberto:

What part or parts of the reading were

confusing or difficult for you and why?

What was important in the story or the main

ideas. (pretest)

The last parts when it talks about the man got

thrown out of gear by thirty seconds. (posttest)


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Sarah:

What kinds of things were happening in yourmind as you read this?

I would have to stop and think about what I wasreading to make sure I got it all right, and thewords were kinda long. I had to rethink what itwas (pretest)

To find the topic and main idea of the story. I waslooking for key sentences or key words to help meremember what I just read. I couldnt find thetwo details about the earthquake. (posttest)


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April:

What part or parts of the reading were

confusing or difficult for you, and why?

How some children at the age of 8 dont get no

attention by there parent. (Another baby!):

pretest)

The last sentence because I didnt know what itmet by shrewd contrivances of our own.


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English 102

18 total students took the pre and post RA

assessment

In the pre-assessment only 6 found the

reading Easy and 12 found it Not too hard

In the post-assessment 12 found the reading

easy and 6 found it Not too hard


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English 102

Using an RA rubric for comprehension and meta-

cognition the student responses to the four RA

questions were assesses on a scale of 1 to 4

Overall, when adding all student scores for eachquestion in the pre assessment, the totals were 49,

44, 51, and 49 for questions 1 through 4, respectively

When adding student scores for each question in the

post assessment, the totals were 68, 60, 61, and 59,

respectivelyscores increased across the board.


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Research Reflections & Implications

Hale Savard

Shazia Khan

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