Hypotheses

Method

Hypothesis 1: There will be a higher mean accuracy of the signs prefaced with picture elaboration techniques than the signs prefaced with word elaboration techniques.
Hypothesis 2: There will be a greater mean accuracy at the immediate testing phase than at at delayed testing phase.
Interaction: The greatest accuracy will be at immediate testing responding to signs prefaced with the picture elaboration techniques.

Word elaboration signs(hard to envision): grow, many, good, nice, day, warm, fun, beautiful

Total Signs

Picture elaboration signs (easy to envision): rural, pick, friends, people, sun, happy, orchard, apple

KEY POINTS:

I had a group of my peers rate on a scale of 1-7 how easy the sign was to envision or imagine in your head. Based on the class ratings, I found the mean for each sign and split the signs into two categories: signs that would be prefaced with a picture elaboration and signs that would be prefaced with a word elaboration.
The immediate phase is right after the learning video while the delayed phase is after the demographic section to provide a distraction

Targeting Kenyon Students through SONA(online survey platform)
- Number of total participants=68
- 18-23 years old
- No other involvement in other Kenyon ASL studies, to avoid prior exposure to the ASL signs
- 52% of participants had no exposure to ASL

2. Materials

Learning Video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9cuCEg_V4
  - Click this link to see my 3 minute learning video and understand the elaboration features!
Testing Videos
- clips of each sign being signed without the elaboration cues
Demographic Questions
- 6 demographic questions to serve as a distraction interval and gauge characteristics of the participants
- Examples:
  - What gender do you identify with?
  - What is your age?
  - Describe your previous ASL exposure(if any)
Recognition Testing
- 4 multiple choice answers under each testing video

3. Procedure

Sign up through SONA
Consent Form
- instructing participants on study info and whether or not they wish to proceed
Learning video
8 Testing items (immediate testing phases)
- clip of sign without elaboration technique followed by recognition task
- 4 questions corresponding to word elaborations, 4 with picture elaborations
6 Demographic Items
- takes about 2-3 minutes depending upon participant
8 testing items (delayed testing phase)
- same format as immediate testing phase
- remaining 4 elaboration signs and 4 picture elaboration signs
Debriefing form

*Entire study length: 15-20 minutes

Example of Recognition Task from

online platform