| Question<\/td>\n | Number of responses (and percentage of total) that started with a capital letter<\/td>\n | Number of responses (and percentage of total) that finished with a full stop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | |||||||||||||||
| A-good-idea<\/strong>AYRF<\/p>\n S154 10J<\/td>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1678 (60.9%)<\/p>\n | 622 (60.0%)<\/td>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1118 (40.6%)<\/p>\n | 433 (41.8%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Oil-on-water<\/strong>S154 10J<\/td>\n | \u00a0500 (53.9%)<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>294 (31.7%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Metamorphic<\/strong>SXR103 10E<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>297 (41.6%)<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>166 (23.2%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Sedimentary<\/strong>SXR103 10E<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>317 (39.9%)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>178 (22.4%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Sandstone<\/strong>S104 10B<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>954 (58.2%)<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>684 (41.7%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Electric-force<\/strong>S104 10B<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>673 (56.7%)<\/td>\n | \u00a0<\/strong>445 (37.5%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | Answers that were\u00a0paragraphs were found to be very likely to start with a capital letter and end with a full stop; answers that were written in note form or as phrases were less likely to start with a capital letter and end with a full stop. Answers in\u00a0the form of sentences were somewhere in between.<\/p>\n The other very\u00a0interesting thing\u00a0was that capital letters and full stops were both [sometimes significantly] associated with correct rather than incorrect responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the paper described in the previous post, I ended up deleting a section which described an investigation into whether student use of capital letters and full stops could be used as a proxy\u00a0 for\u00a0writing in sentences and paragraphs. We … Continue reading |