Blog B: Science Fair Propsal

1.     What is your topic: Deaf Culture

 2.     What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

  “Because English is primarily a spoken language, all hearing children of English-speaking parents absorb it unconsciously, starting from the moment they're born. They're surrounded with English. Children who are born deaf (or early-deafened) are excluded from this process because they cannot hear. The lucky ones whose parents are fluent in SL start school already knowing a language. Those whose parents cannot (and will not) sign are often forced to star school without any real language at all.”

"Why Do so Many Deaf People Have Trouble with English?" The Deaf Way Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <www.thedeafway.org>.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.) : When less students are tested in a cohort group for STAR testing, then more of those students will score in the proficient category.
4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment. Include the tools you plan on using.

Where I will be getting my data is from the internet. I will be looking on the California Department of Education and be searching for the test scores of Language Art in the second grade.


5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment: Behavioral/Social Science