| Student Memory Interview: Question 71: What did the students
think that they remembered the teacher saying when they had the loans in the classroom? |
Conclusion: 63% (15) of 24 students answered the question "What
did your teacher say when you had the loans?" Statements fell into categories of
specific information about the object (10), questions (2), value statements (2) and one
admonition not to touch. 60% (9) of the 15 students who remembered the teachers' input
were female
The specific information that students remembered alluded to the object's context,
ideas, people, materials, processes, identity, age, condition and function. Of the 10
students who remembered specific information, 80% (8) were high ability students. It seems
that the higher the ability of the student, the more likely they are to remember specific
information said by the teacher in relation to the loan.
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.
- · 63% (15) of the students answered the question "What did your teacher say when
you had the loans?":
60% (9) were female
40% (6) were male
47% (7) were low ability
53% (8) were high ability
- · The statements fell into the following categories:
1 Admonition in handling: Low Ability Male
2 Statements about the objects' value: Male and Female of Low Ability
2 Questions: Male and Female of Low Ability
10 Specific information about: context; ideas; people; materials; processes;
identity; age; condition and function: 3 High Ability Males and 7 Females - 2 Low Ability
and 5 High Ability
- · It seems that higher ability students may be more likely to remember specific
information about the object than lower ability students
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| Student Memory Interview: Question 71: Individual Student
Descriptions: |
Admonition: 1
1 Student G1: Male: Low Ability: Y6: 1930s Music Box
The teacher said...to stop playing with it. Every English group I set next to it and I
was seeing how it works. I was in my assigned place.
Questions: 2
2 Student B1: Male: Low Ability: Y5: Victorian Flat Iron
The teacher told...about the objects and asked questions about the objects - not the
iron.
3 Student L3: Female: Low Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
The teacher said... That it was really interesting. And he asked us questions: What do
you think about it? And what do you feel about it? And we wrote it down.
Value Statements: 2
4 Student L1: Male: Low Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
The teacher said...it was down in the Library and then he brought it up. He said that
it was really precious.
5 Student M3: Female: Low Ability: Y6: 1930s Pink Silk Dress
The teacher said...he said it would have been quite expensive in those days.
Information: 10 : context; ideas; people; materials; processes;
identity; age; condition and function.
...about context for use:
6 Student C2: Male: High Ability: Y3: Edwardian Bathing Costume
The teacher said...they used it in very olden days. They sometimes used it in swimming
pools.
7 Student B4: Female: High Ability: Y5: Victorian Clog
The teacher said...you're lucky to get that one because it's one of the best one's to
do. A small child would wear it and it would be passed down through the family.
...about ideas associated with the object:
8 Student H4: Female: High Ability: Y5: Mummified Cat:
The teacher said...something to do with the after life. I remember that bit.
...about people associated with the object:
9 Student L4: Female: High Ability: Y6: Spirit of St. Louis Model Plane
The teacher said...look at the glass case. He talked a lot about who flew it… I
know it was a lady, I know it was saint something, I know she was the first lady to do
something or other - maybe the first woman to fly a plane or the first to fly a plane like
that.
...about materials:
10 Student C4: Female: High Ability: Y3: Glass Buoy
The teacher said...that most of the time you use it for the boats. It is not the sort
of buoys that we get nowadays because it's glass. Nowadays it will sink because it's
glass.
...about processes:
11 Student H2: Male: High Ability: Y5: Mummified Cat
The teacher said... what Egyptians used to do when they mummified cats
...about identity:
12 Student G2: Male: High Ability: Y6: WWII Helmet
The teacher said... she held it up and just said, "This is a
helmet."
...about age:
13 Student C3: Female: Low Ability: Y3: Edwardian Bathing Costume
The teacher said...Look at the students. That's what they used to wear in the olden
days.
...about condition:
14 Student G3: Female: Low Ability: Y6: WWII Hand Grenade
The teacher said…she said they're really delicate in way because they're only
used in wars and that.
...about function:
15 Student G4: Female: High Ability: Y6: WWII Helmet:
The teacher said...she explained what it was for - it was for protecting the men's
head when they were fighting just in case they had a bomb dropped on them or something.
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