| Student Memory Interview: Question 72: What sort of things
did the students say that they understood as a result of interacting with the object? |
Conclusion: 75% (18) of 24 students responded to the question "Did
the loans help you understand anything?". Males were 22% more likely than females to
answer a question about understanding.
Descriptions of what students understood fell into 3 categories: more abstract
statements of learning (8) such as "I understood that WWII was really more dangerous
than I thought it was"; general statements (7) such as "I understood that
clothes were a bit different - like the dress in length and style"; and specific
learning statements (3) such as "I understood what Egyptians did when they mummified
cats".
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.
- · 75% (18) of 24 students responded to the question "Did the loans help you
understand anything?":
61% (11) were male
39% (7) were female
56% (10) were high ability
44% (8) were low ability
- · The statements fell into the following categories:
44% (8) were more Abstract statements: "I understood that WWII was really more
dangerous than I thought it was."
39% (7) were General information linked to the object: "I understood that clothes
were a bit different - like the dress in length and style."
17% (3) were Specific information linked to the object. Example: "I understood
what Egyptians did when they mummified cats."
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| Student Memory Interview: Question 72: Individual Student
Descriptions |
General to Abstract points: 8
1. Student G1: Male: Low Ability
I understood...They didn't have much things to play with. They had to amuse themselves
most of the time. It made me think they must have not used a lot of electricity. It was
just like a thing you press and it turns around, there is no electric.
2. Student M2: Male: High Ability
I understood...how it's nothing like modern day cars. And how it's less safe
as well because there wouldn't have been any special air bags or safety bars.
3. Student G2: Male: High Ability
I understood...it was from WWII. Someone had worn it and it had been past down - or
maybe found next to a dead body.
4. Student B4: Female: Low Ability
I understood...that the Victorians didn't have as much materials as we do.
5. Student L4: Female: High Ability
I understood...it helped me understand what it looked like then. Because I just
thought they looked like a line and a line, like in cartoons, like what the Wright
Brothers did.
6. Student G4: Female: High Ability
I understood...that it (WWII) was really more dangerous than I thought it was.
7. Student L2: Male: High Ability
I understood...the whole thing itself- the Victorian carriage rang a bell in my head.
I understood I wanted to learn more about it.
8. Student L3: Female: Low Ability
I understood... it helped me like look at it and concentrate on it and write down
stuff. And look at it and go around the table and look at it very carefully.
Specific to General facts: 7
9. Student B1: Male: Low Ability:
I understood...about how it was for children.
10. Student L1: Male: Low Ability
I understood...what Miss was talking about in Literacy. She said he flew a plane and
she said the plane, he was the man who was driving the plane. I missed a little bit about
what plane.
11. Student M1: Male: Low Ability
I understood...a kind of fashion in the 1930's that would have been a fashion because
it looked great.
12. Student C2: Male: High Ability
I understood...it helped me understand that in the olden days it wouldn't feel so
comfortable as it does now in the water. I don't think they had floatable things that they
do now where you can float on them and go out into the sea.
13. Student M3: Female: Low Ability
I understood...the clothes were a bit different - like the dress in length and the
style.
14. Student M2: Female: High Ability
I understood...that transport was a bit different - like they travelled along cable
instead of petrol.
15. Student B4: Female: High Ability
I understood...the way they made things was different to now. We use leather
still but in a different way.
Specific facts: 3
16. Student H1: Male: Low Ability
I understood...that in the olden days they used to wrap up cats
17. Student H2: Male: High Ability
I understood...what Egyptians did when they mummified cats
18. Student B2: Male: High Ability
I understood...that they used a bell when they were making people come in - a bell
they would hold.
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