Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1987

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

This study was undertaken in an effort to discover whether Mexican migrant students and American students differ in their dominant learning modalities. The hypothesis tested was that there is no difference between the modality strengths and weaknesses in a random sample of sixty Mexican migrant students and sixty American students in grades two and three in Fellsmere Elementary School. When the two groups were compared by the Chi Square Test, no significant difference was found at the.05 level of confidence. The students were also compared to expected levels in the general population, using a Chi Square Goodness of Fit Test. The Mexican students showed a significant difference at the.05 level of confidence; however, the American students did not. The third grade Mexican migrant students scored at the 56.67 percentile in the area of visual dominance, which was well above Barbe's expected results. Other interesting results pertaining to whether students are more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic in grades two and three were also found. These results may have occurred because the rural American students are similar enough to the Mexican students in their modality strengths to not differ significantly when compared to them, even though the Mexican students differed significantly from expected percentages in the general population.

Extent

77 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.

Identifier

FADT11891

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