Vocabulary Project for Middle Level Students
Teacher: Donna Burrows, Ravenscroft School, Raleigh,
NC
The vocabulary project for seventh grade grew out of a meeting
with Language Arts teachers in a local middle school. The teachers
were asked in what part of the Language Arts curriculum might
they wish to integrate technology. One teacher decided that
she would like to try to develop something online as an alternative
format for presenting vocabulary to seventh grade students.
A pilot project was developed in which three groups of students
worked on their vocabulary words online. All students were assigned
a student number. Group one was presented with textual information
similar to what they had previously received on paper. Group
two was presented with text and graphics that might trigger
recall of the vocabulary word. Group three was presented with
text, graphics and auditory information about the vocabulary
words. The students used WebAssign, an assignment system created
at NCSU and previously used with university and high school
students.
The next year it was decided that three
classes of students would be randomly assigned to the groups
described above. A learning styles inventory was administered
online within the WebAssign system to determine each student's
preferred method for obtaining information. Student vocabulary
test scores were collected for the year.
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