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Identifier	Thesis 2133
Author	Kopelman, Jennifer Beth, 1986-
Title	The effect of RAFT writing strategy on students' responses to open response mathematics questions
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2011; *
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This study examined whether RAFT (Role, Audience, Format and Topic) writing prompts had an impact on students mathematical open ended responses. This study was conducted over the course of five months and took place in a public school in Connecticut. The participants of the study were 30 seventh grade mathematics students. The study consisted of two groups: a control group and an experimental group. The control group completed typical writing prompts every day during a 20 minute sustained silent writing (SSW) period. The experimental group completed RAFT writing prompts every day during the same 20 minute SSW period. RAFT writing prompts is a program that asks students to creatively analyze and synthesize the information from a particular text or concepts by taking on a particular role or perspective, defining the target audience, and choosing an appropriate written format to convey their understanding of the content topic. The acronym RAFT stands for Role of the writer: What is the writer's role: reporter, observer, eyewitness, object, number, line, etc.? Audience: Who will be reading the writing: editor, people in the community, other numbers, other lines etc.? RAFT Writing Strategy 3 Format: What is the best way to present this writing: in a letter, an article, a report, a poem, an advertisement, e-mail, etc.? Topic: Who or what is the subject of this writing: the importance of a specific number, how numbers, lines or shapes work together etc.? Analysis of Means and Variances t - tests were used to analyze monthly quizzes. Each monthly quiz asked three open response questions. Each quiz had a spatial, numeric and statistical question. The findings of the study indicated that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups relating to the improvement of mathematical open response questions in relation to the completion of RAFT writing prompts.
Subject	Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
Department	Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor	Halloran, Philip P
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	804652992
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