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COMPARISON OF MODALITY STRENGTHS OF MEXICAN AND AMERICAN SECOND AND THIRD GRADE STUDENTS IN FELLSMERE, FLORIDA

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Date Issued:
1987
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This study was undertaken in an effort to discover whether Mexican migrant students and American students differ in their dominant learning modalities. The hypothesis tested was that there is no difference between the modality strengths and weaknesses in a random sample of sixty Mexican migrant students and sixty American students in grades two and three in Fellsmere Elementary School. When the two groups were compared by the Chi Square Test, no significant difference was found at the.05 level of confidence. The students were also compared to expected levels in the general population, using a Chi Square Goodness of Fit Test. The Mexican students showed a significant difference at the.05 level of confidence; however, the American students did not. The third grade Mexican migrant students scored at the 56.67 percentile in the area of visual dominance, which was well above Barbe's expected results. Other interesting results pertaining to whether students are more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic in grades two and three were also found. These results may have occurred because the rural American students are similar enough to the Mexican students in their modality strengths to not differ significantly when compared to them, even though the Mexican students differed significantly from expected percentages in the general population.
Title: A COMPARISON OF MODALITY STRENGTHS OF MEXICAN AND AMERICAN SECOND AND THIRD GRADE STUDENTS IN FELLSMERE, FLORIDA.
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Name(s): WILLIAMS, SHEILA MOORE
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 77 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study was undertaken in an effort to discover whether Mexican migrant students and American students differ in their dominant learning modalities. The hypothesis tested was that there is no difference between the modality strengths and weaknesses in a random sample of sixty Mexican migrant students and sixty American students in grades two and three in Fellsmere Elementary School. When the two groups were compared by the Chi Square Test, no significant difference was found at the.05 level of confidence. The students were also compared to expected levels in the general population, using a Chi Square Goodness of Fit Test. The Mexican students showed a significant difference at the.05 level of confidence; however, the American students did not. The third grade Mexican migrant students scored at the 56.67 percentile in the area of visual dominance, which was well above Barbe's expected results. Other interesting results pertaining to whether students are more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic in grades two and three were also found. These results may have occurred because the rural American students are similar enough to the Mexican students in their modality strengths to not differ significantly when compared to them, even though the Mexican students differed significantly from expected percentages in the general population.
Identifier: 11891 (digitool), FADT11891 (IID), fau:8812 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.
Subject(s): Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Mexican American children--Education--Florida
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