I am interested in the correlation between reading often at a young age and intelligence. My research question is: Does reading regularly at a young age contribute to the intelligence of a child? My hypothesis would be that children who do read more often will have higher IQ scores than children who do not.
The research would be conducted through a longitudinal study of children from the ages of five through ten. There would be an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group would read for half an hour every day while the control group would not. IQ tests would be administered to both groups at the age of five and again at the age of ten in order to measure whether or not the children who read half an hour a day experienced an increase in intelligence over the children who did not read every day.
The independent variable is the half an hour of reading each day. The dependent variable is intelligence.
5 comments:
You pose an incredibly interesting research question. I agree completely with your hypothesis, and i also agree the best way to conduct the research would be longitudinally, and the variables are great!
I thought your research question was very interesting. I would be curious to see how your study would turn out. I was a horrible reader and because of it I never read much as a child. This made school very difficult for me. Your study could help a lot of parents and teachers improve children’s futures.
That is an interesting idea, I don't know though if children who read actually would have a higher IQ, for example if they were involved in music, science, art etc. rather than reading you may not see a difference however if you compared children who read vs children who watched tv i think you would see a difference. Just an idea!
I think you are correct in your hypothesis about the correlation between reading and in teligence. your study would be interesting to see. How are the students going to be tested verbally or written?
This is really interesting. I'm taking a reading class right now and we talked about this a little bit. No one had an answer, only theories. I would love to see the results for this.
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