Purpose of study In the research presented by Grünke, Wilbert, and Stegemann (2013), the effectiveness of a story mapping procedure was measured. Researchers hypothesized that the use of the story mapping procedure would yield significant increases in student reading comprehension levels. The researchers used a single-case multiple baseline design to investigate the extent to which the implementation of the story mapping procedure caused significant treatment effects.
Methods
This research took place in Germany, and was specifically conducted in two different schools in the city of North Rhine-Westphalia. A sample of six students was selected for this research study (male = 2, female = 4). Three of the participating students were from a regular education public school fifth grade classroom. The remaining three participants were eighth grade students selected from a school for children with learning disabilities. All participants …show more content…
This research was limited in that single case studies often have restrained external validity due to small sample size. While this research only involved a small amount of participants, it also involved a narrowly defined text structure. Students were only presented with short narrative stories that were all adapted from books written by the same author. This limits the results of this research in that the extent to which story mapping with expository texts was not examined. In addition to this, there was no posttest battery administered to students following the intervention. The data that was analyzed to show treatment effects was data that was taken from comprehension assessments that students were only administered during the intervention lessons. Inter-rater reliability of observations was also abnormally low, creating confusion as to where the statistical analysis seems warranted for and where it seems rather
Methods
This research took place in Germany, and was specifically conducted in two different schools in the city of North Rhine-Westphalia. A sample of six students was selected for this research study (male = 2, female = 4). Three of the participating students were from a regular education public school fifth grade classroom. The remaining three participants were eighth grade students selected from a school for children with learning disabilities. All participants …show more content…
This research was limited in that single case studies often have restrained external validity due to small sample size. While this research only involved a small amount of participants, it also involved a narrowly defined text structure. Students were only presented with short narrative stories that were all adapted from books written by the same author. This limits the results of this research in that the extent to which story mapping with expository texts was not examined. In addition to this, there was no posttest battery administered to students following the intervention. The data that was analyzed to show treatment effects was data that was taken from comprehension assessments that students were only administered during the intervention lessons. Inter-rater reliability of observations was also abnormally low, creating confusion as to where the statistical analysis seems warranted for and where it seems rather