| Student Memory Interview: Question 70: What sort of
questions did the students ask in response to the loans? |
Conclusion: 50% (12) of 24 students responded to the question "Did
you ask anything at the time of the loan?" Twice as many lower ability students (8)
recalled questions than higher ability students (4). It is not clear whether this was
because they needed more help to understand or that the object facilitated the difficult
process of framing a question.
Like their teachers, the students all asked closed questions of the objects. Many of
them demanded little more than one word answers (7) while the remaining questions required
a slightly fuller explanation (5). Questions included those about the object's identity,
use, age, original context, its associated people, and how it was made.
Summary of Findings:
These findings are based on interviews with 24 primary students in Y3-Y6: 12
higher ability and 12 lower ability; 12 females and 12 males. The students were
interviewed 7 - 10 months after their use of these loans in the classroom.
50% (12) of 24 students responded to the question "Did you ask
anything at the time of the loan?":
- · 50% (6) were female students and
- · 50% (6) were male students
- · 66% (8) were lower ability students and
- · 33% (4) were higher ability students.
Twice as many lower ability students recalled questions than higher ability students.
- · These questions were all closed questions. Like their teachers, the students ask
closed questions of the objects instead of open ones.
- · The questions fell into the following categories:
3 about the identity of the object/parts of the object
3 about people associated with the object
3 about the processes brought about by use of the object
1 about the date of the object
1 about the wider context of the object
1 about the making of the object
Of the 12 questions, over half of them demand little more than one word answers. The
remaining questions (5) demand slightly fuller explanations.
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| Student Memory Interview: Question 70: Individual Student
Descriptions |
Closed Questions requiring limited and specific information: 7
1. Student B1: Male: Low Ability: Y5: Victorian Flat Iron
I asked... what it was. I didn't understand the shape of it.
2. Student G2: Male: High Ability: Y6: WWII Helmet
I asked... what the letters (on the helmet) stood for.
3. Student L1: Male: Low Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
I asked... who it was (in Literacy). It was the person who actually flew it - S.
Louis.
4. Student L3: Female: Low Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
I asked…what year was it invented?
5. Student M1: Male: Low Ability: 1930s Blue Silk Dress
I asked... who owned it?
6. Student M3: Female: Low Ability: Y6: 1930s Pink Silk Dress
I asked...what type of lady would wear it - like, you know, a posh one or a normal
person but not as posh?
7. Student M4: Female: High Ability: Y6: 1930s Tram Model
I asked... how much it would be to ride in it?
Closed Questions demanding a fuller explanation: 5
8. Student B2: Male: High Ability: Y4: Victorian School Bell
I asked... why would anyone want to ring something so high pitched?
9. Student C3: Female: Low Ability: Y3: Edwardian Bathing Costume
I asked... how did they make it?
10. Student G1: Male: Low Ability: Y6: 1930s Music Box
I asked... what other things did they have to amuse them?
11. Student H3: Female: Low Ability: Y5: Ancient Egyptian Jewellery
I asked... why would it be in glass instead of like just wearing it?
12. Student L4: Female: High Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
I asked... why it was called…?
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