Restless
A student that falls asleep every 15min in the back of the class and is aware of the situation because of the instructor telling them to focus.
The student could move up to the front of the class so he can fully engage in the class, this may improve his ability to stay awake. Being as far away as he was, he may have easily been able to zone out and fall asleep.
Moving to the front of the class he would have all his senses engaged and maybe it would help him stay focused and awake.
If this did not help the situation and the student still fell asleep this would falsify my test
If he stayed awake and stayed focused it would support my hypothesis.
An untestable hypothesis could be that the student learns better when they are asleep.
Hello Lie, I feel like your hypothesis is reasonable, and I actually thought about the seating arrangement as well. You have a great plan on how you could possibly test your hypothesis. Changing his seat to the front might help to keep him awake! I feel like your untestable explanation might actually be testable. You might be able to test that he learns better when he is asleep by conducting a lecture with him asleep and then a lecture with him awake and seeing when he learns more. I think it might just be absurd but still testable. Great blog post!
ReplyDeleteTestable Hypothesis (5/5) I had to dig to get to your testable hypothesis! This was it:
ReplyDelete"Being as far away as he was, he may have easily been able to zone out and fall asleep. "
That's your hypothesis, that he is seated too far back in the class and this is *causing* him to fall asleep. A hypothesis is about the *cause* of something.
Test (5/5) - I agree with your test, i.e., moving him to the front of the class.
Support (5/5) - Good.
Falsify (5/5) - Good.
Untestable Hypothesis (7/10) - Why isn't this testable? The student is real. The process of sleep is real. The process of learning is real. Couldn't you set up a situation where you compare delivering information to the student when he his awake and asleep and then test his knowledge to see if this is supported?
For a hypothesis to be "untestable", it has to be undetectable, unobservable, or unmeasurable in any way. Don't confuse your OWN inability to figure out a way to test it with being "untestable". That's not the same thing.
hi Lie, i agree that if the student has a hard time staying engaged with the lecture, thus him falling asleep, moving his towards the front could help. he would be able to hear and focus on the lecture more compared if he were sitting in the back. although i think it may be silly your untestable hypothesis may still be testable.
ReplyDeleteHi Lie, I had a similar idea about putting the student in the front of the class, but I also thought to put him in the middle of the class so that he was surrounded by more of his peers. I felt that this would encourage him to participate more or, at the very least, deter him from falling asleep so that he doesn't bother his classmates. I think putting him in the front is a good idea because it would help him engage in the lesson more.
ReplyDeleteHello Lie!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the way you set up this scenario. I find your hypothesis to be a unique way in changing the students behavior. Mine personally was not as creative as yours, haha! But by moving the student pretty much where ever there are more active participants I feel like that would also deter them from sleeping.