Surviving Accelerated Courses: How Foldable ® Graphic Organizers Can Help Engage Learners
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Surviving Accelerated Courses: How Foldable® Graphic Organizers
Can Help Engage LearnersDr. Melanie Narkawicz
Dr. DiAnn B. CasteelTusculum College
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Let’s make a Foldable®!
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Provide results of research to support the use of graphic organizers in teaching college students
Provide participants with hands-on experience in constructing different types of graphic organizers
Presentation Goals
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Let’s make a Foldable®!
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Hands-on manipulatives that helps students construct meaning from assigned readings or lectures (Hoffman, 2003)
Foldables® - Quick and inexpensive graphic organizers that require just colored paper and scissors
Developed for medical school students, but used in kindergarten and beyond
What are Graphic Organizers?
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Professors desire teaching strategies that engage students in active learning
Accelerated courses present unique challenge to cover a semester’s amount of info in only a few class meetings
This study examined effectiveness of Foldable® graphic organizers in improving students’ retention of course content in an accelerated course
Reasons for Study
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Research has found that students’ retention of information begins declining after about 15 minutes of lecture (Lake, 2001)
Constructing Foldables® shortens longer lectures to 10-15 minute segments
Foldables® provide students with a study tool
Question: Will those taught basic research methods in an accelerated course using lecture interspersed with Foldables® perform better on quizzes than those taught with lecture only?
Study Introduction
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Population (N=67): Adult students, age 22+ (91% White; 71% female; median age=33; in Organizational Management BS program taking required basic research methods accelerated course of three 4-hour sessions)
Retrospective study of students taught by one instructor (Dr. Narkawicz) for one year (after seeing greater understanding of key concepts in the courses when students had constructed Foldables®)
Control Group (n=33): First half of the year taught with PowerPoint based lecture (notes provided)
Treatment Group (n=34): Second half of the year taught with PowerPoint based lecture (notes provided) PLUS Foldables®
Quasi-Experimental Methods
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Night 1: Foldables® made for three topics (experimental v. non-experimental designs; ethics in research; and elements in research reports)
Night 2: Foldables® made for two topics (sampling
designs and validity v. reliability)
Topics had been selected because students seemed to have the most difficulty understanding these particular concepts
PowerPoint lecture presented these topics, then students created a Foldable ® as described on the PowerPoint slide
Quasi-Experimental Treatment
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Let’s make a Foldable®!
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4-Tab Hot Dog Foldable®
Example
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Let’s make a Foldable®!
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How Foldable® Graphic Organizers Can Help Engage
Learners
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AnalysisResults
DiscussionLimitationsConclusions
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Examined percentage right versus wrong on three quiz questions that directly related to the topics on which Foldables® had been made (discuss 4 elements in research reports; explain difference between validity and reliability; explain ethical obligations of researchers toward subjects, including informed consent)
Quizzes had been graded several months before study and at the time of grading, if any information was incorrect (even partially), the question was counted as wrong
Analysis
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Treatment group did 51% better, a significant difference (χ2=9.539; p=.002; df =1; Φ= .22)
Treatment Group (n=98) got 65% correct
Control Group (n=95) got 43% correct
Results
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Evidence using Foldables® in accelerated class was an effective tool for enhancing students’ retention
Foldables® allowed a break so that the 1.5 hour lecture actually became a series of mini-lectures of about 15-20 minutes each
Foldables® address visual and kinesthetic learning styles in addition to auditory learning style of lectures
A simple pause of a few minutes to construct a Foldable® allowed students to refocus their attention for several minutes before moving back to the lecture (students visibly perked up…asking more questions, paying more attention, not yawning, becoming more focused on the lecture following construction of a Foldable®);
Discussion
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Intact groups and not randomly assigned, so there may have been unidentified differences between the groups that were related to the use of the Foldables®
Older adult students studying in a business discipline, many of whom worked during the day and attended classes at night (may not well represent traditional aged students)
Limitations
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Question: Will those taught basic research methods in an accelerated course using lecture interspersed with Foldables® perform better on quizzes than those taught with lecture only? Yes!
Previous research indicated the effectiveness of graphic organizers in multiple ages and disciplines (DeMeo, 2007; Hall & Strangman, 2002; Katayama & Robinson, 2000; Schau & Mattern 1997)
Previous research indicated graphic organizers were helpful for students from primary school to medical school (Casteel & Narkawicz, 2009; DeMeo, 2007; Hall & Strangman, 2002, MacKinnon & Keppell, 2005; Katayama & Robinson, 2000; Schau & Mattern 1997)
Other faculty members at Tusculum reported successfully using Foldables® among traditional-aged students and adult students and in diverse disciplines ranging from education, psychology, and statistics, to English. Faculty members indicated both graduate and undergraduate students have successfully used Foldables®
Conclusions
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Any questions about the research study?
(Future research might focus on the role of color of paper in effectiveness since students indicate
they can visualize different colored Foldables®)
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