Introduction: The focus of my coursework is to find out whether the age of a person impacts on the reading speed or if gender affects the reading speed of a person. I am going to carry out this research in order to prove or disprove these hypotheses: • The older the person is the faster the person is to read a page as he/she is more experienced at reading and understand more sophisticated vocabulary than younger age groups. • Girls are faster at reading than boys are as girls hobbies differ from those of boys; from an early age girls develop an interest to read whereas boys are attentive to sport related activities. For my coursework I will need to collect data to do with the reading time of males and females, I will also collect some data which will be about how age affects reading time of a person. As I am researching gender and age I will be using stratified sampling of 80 people. I would do this because it a suitable and large enough number and would give me reliable set of results. I will sort the data into age groups according to gender. So there will be two groups, which are males and females. Grouping will make my sample make look more professional and organised, in the future it would not give me any problems as the likelihood for making any mistakes during calculations will decrease dramatically. I will take the data from the youngest age to the oldest age, as ordering the age would not affect stratified sampling. A stratified sample is a sample with
Boys in high school are less interested in reading because they feel the books they are required to read tend to appeal more to the girly side of things. The textbooks and literature assigned do not reflect the dispositions of the male students. When my brother was in high school he was required to read Romeo and Juliet
However in regards to general results between both genders it was shown that no definite statistical mean yielded notable results (Alansari & Baroun, 2004). Stroop (1935) also showed that women college students also showed a difference when compared to the men and tended to have higher word reading results, but in regards to the genders showed no significant differentiation between both at the cognitive level.
The evidence in Husband’s study provided is supportive because it points out how gender differences affect the achievement of reading based on the standards, expectations, reading selections, disciplinary actions and learning styles that emphasize resistance towards African American males (Husband 2-3). The author inserted maps within the article displaying the neurological differences (Husband 5) boys have with more testosterone on the brain and are less likely to sit still in a class. “Husband proclaims boys have to be taught to participate in reading verses most girls naturally do not. boys tend to be drawn toward reading newspapers, how-to manuals, and other short informational texts more often than girls” (Husband 4).Boys perhaps would be better off learning through story telling based on the feeling of disempowering in reading circles (Husband 5). This investigation presented the classroom text included is not male preference and because it doesn’t reflect their culture or life experiences males withdraw. Husband’s
The way you read, the atmosphere around the place you read, and also the techniques you use, determine how fast you will be able to read. In this book there are many techniques to speed reading. Some of the hand motions are more difficult than others. But when using them you will increase your reading speed.
Children that read well can process word in four hundred milliseconds, but children with dyslexia take five hundred milliseconds or more. This makes them not read as well as others and as fast as other can. (Hotz)
The aim of this study is to collect and present data concerning the Stroop effect; specifically, the average difference in times for reading
For a child who is just starting to learn to read, they need sufficient practice in reading a variety of different books to achieve fluency. Reading can be complex and has many different aspects (Burns,1999). It is suggested that children who have problems reading and writing at a young age will find it hard to catch up as they get older and will not reach their full potential as adults, many will withdraw from school or society and some becoming involved with crime (MacBlain,2014). 40 percent of children find learning to read a challenge but with early help, most reading problems can be prevented (Reading Rockets, n.d.).
This method would be more appropriate than stratified sampling, as I want each group to be the same, regardless of where they are from. Stratified sampling would allow me to represent groups based on male-female ratios per town or city, but since each group is going to be assigned an equal number of participants, cluster sampling is the better option. From this point I will use a two-step version of systematic sampling. First, I will break up the groups into male and female categories, and then use systematic sampling within these divisions to choose which participants to study. Considering that this experiment does not entail administration of medication or other physical items, I could stop after breaking up the population into clusters, but for the sake or narrowing down my participatory groups as well as cost savings, it makes sense to further narrow down prospective
(Attention Getter) Reading is a hobby that many of us can or already do enjoy, but what if I told you that the benefits of reading can stretch far beyond a little ease-of-mind? (Thesis): Some claim that readers will be able to enjoy a notably longer life than those who do not read. (Relevance): Out of the lazing pastimes that we occupy our little free-time with, very few of them have such a considerable, long-term effects as these claims
One of the greatest skills that we have developed as a people is our capacity and ability for language. Creating a way for us to communicate spread ideas and further enriches our lives, language both verbally and written, has been a great benefit to our lives. Unfortunately not everyone is as quick to understand language in its forms, for example when a person may have difficulties in reading. Obviously this would create a great hindrance to a person’s life, and there have been a few identified factors that have correlated with difficulties in learning to read. One of the main connections that has been found is that a person who has difficulty in processing sounds of words, that they may also have lessened reading abilities. In discussing
Knowing the differences in the brain begins to give some understanding on how and why females and males learn differently. There are many basic differences in learning. Like stated previously females are better at verbal skills which makes them better at reading and writing and causes them to use words as they learn, and males are better
Reading helps in mental development and is known to stimulate the muscles of the eyes and it is also an activity that involves greater levels of concentration and adds to the conversational skills of the reader.
Mar. 5, 2008 — Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.
On the other hand, many opponents believe that the gender differences in learning styles are tiny or non-existent, and it is no need to divide students according to sexes (Hayes, Pahlke & Bigler, 2011, p. 694). Foremost, Pahlke and Hyde (2016, pp. 82) emphasize that there is inadequate evidence to show any differences in academic related traits, such as hearing ability and verbal ability between boys and girls. This means that many distributions of academic behaviour and attitudes of males and females are highly overlapping. Moreover, in the majority areas of cognitive ability, the diversity within sexes is far outweighing the diversity between sexes (Sadker & Silber, 2007, p. 34). Thus, boys and girls can learn in the same way, and single-sex education is needless.
On the other hand, many opponents believe that the gender differences in learning styles are tiny or non-existent, and it is no need to divide students according to gender (Hayes, Pahlke & Bigler, 2011, p. 694). Foremost, Pahlke and Hyde (2016, pp. 82) emphasize that there has a lack of adequate evidence to show any differences in academic related traits, such as hearing ability and verbal ability between boys and girls. This means that many of the distributions of academic behaviour and attitudes for males and females are highly overlapping. Moreover, in the majority areas of cognitive ability, the diversity within sex is far outweigh the diversity between sex (Sadker & Silber, 2007, p. 34). Thus, boys and girls can learn in the same way, and single-sex education is needless.