My research paper is still very much a work in progress and I have not yet been able to carry out the 2nd part of my study due to some time constraints and I am also awaiting the return of permission slips from many of my students. I do have some test results and these pertain to using Quizlet in the classroom when teaching new vocabulary – games, matching, review and so forth, and we also played the game Quizlet live and used the matching game right before they took the vocabulary test. Students were presented with another set of new vocabulary last week, and we have not used Quizlet at all to help learn those new words. Students made paper flashcards and during class we have used those to quiz each other. I am hoping to give students a test on that vocabulary either this coming Wednesday or Friday, but I am a little concerned that time is running out, as final exams our nearly upon us. I made a survey using survey monkey asking students about their experiences with Quizlet and will ask them to fill that out also this coming week and so I should have more data to report back on soon.
I am hoping that the data will show that using Quizlet has helped the students to acquire new language more easily, but I am wondering if I will have too little data to prove this, as currently I will only have one test where students have studied vocabulary without using Quizlet to compare with. I think if I was doing this study again, I would want to spread it out over a longer period maybe so that I could get more data. I also need to focus on how I am going to go about analyzing this data, and am finding that quite challenging. I’m not too familiar with the options available, so I need to spend some time thinking about this. What is certain though is that students certainly do enjoy using Quizlet when they are learning new words and the games really seem to engage them. There seems to be a real learning buzz going on in the classroom when they use it and I am hoping that the results of my study will support this.
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March 2019
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