Graduate Action Research Project
Emory & Henry College
Introduction / Rationale
Introduction / Rationale
With the introduction of What impact does the grouping of children
new hand-held technology,
maintaining students by learning styles and/or personalities have
attention in the classroom
has never been more
difficult.
One potential way to
combat this teaching
difficulty is by using the
method of grouping
students in order to better
meet their interests and
needs.
Grouping students within
the classroom has been
proven to be an effective
way of improving students
academic scores.
(Matthews & McBee,
2013).
Grouping by personality
traits and grouping by
learning styles are two
particular methods of
grouping in the classroom
which will be examined in
this study.
Spring 2016
Benjamin Heath Barnett
Research Topic Literature Review
Carl Jung, one of the
fathers of psychoanalytical
study, claimed that every
on the classroom environment? person has a different
personality profile. Using
this profile not only
improves the students
academic performance, but
Research Design also makes the classroom
more enjoyable.
(Richardson & Arker, 2010).
This study will take place in two separate high school
history classes. Grouping students by their
The students in one class will be grouped by learning style can benefit a
students academic
personalities based on the results of the True Colors performance. By using the
Personality Test. (True Colors Intl., 2015). PEGASUS online software,
students can be grouped so
The students in the other classroom will be grouped that their different learning
by learning style based on the results of the styles complement one
PEGESUS software (Kyprianidou, Demetriadis, Tsiatsos, & another. This allows
students to be more
Pombortsis, 2012).
effective learners.
At the beginning of the semester, both classrooms (Emerson & Taylor, 2007).
will take an academic pre-test, along with a
Classroom Happiness Test.
This study will last the duration of the semester.
Students will then take their end of course test and
retake the Classroom Happiness Test.
The results of both these tests will be assessed to
look for increases in academic performance and
classroom happiness based on the grouping styles.