After the eight week window has closed, I expect to find that the two-week period where students learned about mnemonics using imagery had the highest test scores. Mnemonics using imagery is an individual approach to better remembering key vocabulary terms. Each student can paint his or her own picture to help better understand and remember various vocabulary terms.
If my hypothesis proves to be accurate, I propose that teachers be aware of the results and plan to incorporate this study strategy into their weekly lessons. I would suggest to the administration that a team of teachers be trained and carry out the same research in their own grade-levels. Once the experiment is conducted and results are in, the team could compare their findings and present their data to staff members at a School Improvement Day session. Furthermore, the team that conducted the parallel experiments could offer a workshop at a the county wide Institute Day. I believe that by having familiar co-workers carry out the experiment, teachers are more apt to listen and carry out the proven method in comparison to attending workshops given by people they are not familiar with.
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Good, but you have to think about how you separate the results from the mnemonics as memory strategy from the other results in the other weeks with the alternate memory strategies.
Think comparing the experimental group with the control group, and then might even do some interviews with the students in the experimental group.
Later in a good statistics class you might learn that you can control some variables (such as the different memory strategies), and see what effect has each, all rest being equal.
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