The Result of the after test that was given to the three classes.
It is clear from the graphs that:
• In the control class the students answered 85 questions out of a possible 135 correct; this means they answered 63% of the test correct. The students got 37% of the answers wrong, which means they got 50 incorrect answers. The students also left no blanks.
• In the negatively reinforced class the students managed to get 80 questions answered correct out of a possible 254, this means that the students got 39% of the test correct. The students got 30% of the answers incorrect, which means that they got 77 questions incorrect. They left 97 questions unanswered, means that they left 39% of their test unanswered.
• In the positively reinforced class, the students got 44 questions correct out of a possible 110, this means that the students managed to get 40% of their test correct. They got 12 questions incorrect, which means that they only got 11% of their test incorrect. They left 49% of their test blank, which means that they left 54 questions blank.
From the above results it is clear that the students in the control class got the most questions correct, while the positively reinforced class preformed better than the negatively reinforced class. Also, it is clear that the control class got most of the questions incorrect, the positively reinforced class got the least number of answers incorrect. From the results, it is evident that positively reinforced class left the highest amount of blanks, while the control class left none.
The Results From The Before Test That Was Given To The Three Classes.
It is clear from the graphs that positively reinforced class preformed better in the before test, because they managed to get the most of the questions asked correct.
• The students in the positively reinforced class answered 44 questions out of a possible 110, which means that they got 40% of their answers correct. They got 11% of their answers incorrect which meant that they got 12 incorrect answers. They left 54 questions unanswered which means they left 49% of the questions that they were given blank.
• The students in the control class got 22 questions correct out of a possible 76, which means they got 29% of the questions answered correct. They got 66% of their answers incorrect, which means that out of a possible 76 questions, they got 50 incorrect. They left 4 answers unanswered, which means that they left 5% of questions that they were given blank.
• The students in the negatively reinforced class answered 23 questions correct out of a possible 69, which means that they got 33% of the questions answered correct. They got 37% of their answers incorrect, which means that the students answered 25 questions incorrect. They left 21 questions unanswered, which means that they left 30% of the questions that they were given blank.
From the above results, it is clear that the students in the positively reinforced class answered the most questions correct. The control class answered the least amount of questions correct. The students in the positively reinforced class also got the least number of their answers incorrect, while the students in the control class got the most number of questions incorrect. The students in the control left the least amount of questions blank, while the students in the positively controlled class left most of the questions asked blank. The negatively reinforced class preformed somewhat in the middle, because the students didn’t answer the most questions correct, incorrect, or left them blank.
