Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item The effect of classroom organization on student success(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019) Politte, Destiny Nicole; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Greg FrancisThe purpose of this study was to see how student organization affected success in the classroom and can the student take over their own education through organization. Students were provided with a unit binder organized by the teacher. This binder was not only be used for daily classwork but was also allowed to be used on formative assessments. To see if the organized unit binder was helping students actually learn, the formative assessment scores were compared to the scores of a summative assessment where the student were not allowed to use the unit binder. The results from this study showed no significant difference in the scores between the formative and summative assessments and that students completed more work during the treatment unit. This concludes that students did benefit from the use of the classroom organization.Item An investigation of four remediation techniques in the science classroom(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018) Rice, Jocelyn Mandy; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Greg FrancisThe goal of this research project was to determine which of four teaching strategies was most effective as a remediation technique. The four strategies included table manipulatives, concept mapping, interactive science notebook journaling, and a flipped classroom approach. Over the course of eight instructional units, students were exposed to each strategy twice during a mid-day remediation and enrichment period called the GAELS period. The results of this investigation suggest that each of the four strategies were effective for improving students' test scores from pre to post-test for at least one unit, but some strategies worked better for one unit than another, sometimes producing a large normalized gain for one unit, and a negative normalized gain for another. Overall, concept mapping produced the largest gain from the study, 31%, when used with the cell transport unit.