Summary of students' responses to five open-ended questions in the survey
| Question | Category (N) | Theme (N, %) |
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| 1b. Describe your opinion on using annotating in your social studies classroom. If you thought it was easy, describe why it was easy | Easy to use (N = 44) |
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| 2b. Describe how you think annotating affected this. If you think you were actively engaged, describe how annotating helped with this | Increase engagement (N = 38) |
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| 3b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that annotating increased your learning of the content, describe how annotating increased your learning of the content | Increase learning (N = 25) |
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| 4b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that you will use annotating in your future social studies classes, describe how you plan to continue to use it | Increase future learning in social studies (N = 31) |
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| 5b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that you will use annotating in your other content area classes, identify the content(s) and describe why you think annotating will help in that content(s)? | Increase future learning in English language arts, math and science (N = 23) |
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| Question | Category ( | Theme ( |
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| 1b. Describe your opinion on using annotating in your social studies classroom. If you thought it was easy, describe why it was easy | Easy to use ( | -Prerequisite skills (28, 63.64%) -Prior experience (13, 29.54%) -Others (3, 6.82%) |
| 2b. Describe how you think annotating affected this. If you think you were actively engaged, describe how annotating helped with this | Increase engagement ( | -Visualized key points (32, 84.21%) -Encouraged critical thinking (5, 13.16%) -Increased focus (1, 2.63%) |
| 3b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that annotating increased your learning of the content, describe how annotating increased your learning of the content | Increase learning ( | -Broke down complex texts (19, 76%) -Increased discourse (3, 12%) -Slowed down reading (3, 12%) |
| 4b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that you will use annotating in your future social studies classes, describe how you plan to continue to use it | Increase future learning in social studies ( | -Broke down complex texts (28, 90.32%) -Encouraged critical thinking (2, 6.45%) -Slowed down reading (1, 3.23%) |
| 5b. If you marked that you “agree” or “strongly agree” that you will use annotating in your other content area classes, identify the content(s) and describe why you think annotating will help in that content(s)? | Increase future learning in English language arts, math and science ( | -Broke down complex texts (17, 73.91%) -Encouraged critical thinking (2, 8.7%) -Slowed down reading (4, 17.39%) |