“ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS”
             In this experiment the experimenters tried to determine if this cliche is true, if people do actually learn better through observation than through words. They taught different children in different ways, some by action, and some by words, in order to determine how they learn better.
             I think that the tested children who are shown what to do will have a cleaner
             room at the end of the experiment, proving that children who are taught through demonstration learn better than those who are just told what to do.
             The children who are told what to do will learn better then those who are shown, disproving the cliche.
             Two kinder-garden classes (age group: 5 year old boys and girls) from each of ten different schools – 20 classes in total.
             Each of the ten experimenters was assigned one of the ten schools. The experimenters went to one class and on five separate occasions explained exactly where the books go, where the paint goes, how to clean the paintbrushes, how to stack the blocks etc.
             The experimenter then went into the second class and showed them the exact place of each toy, and showed them how to stack them, how to clean the paintbrushes etc., without saying anything in the process. Only giving them a brief introduction of what he is doing.
             After the five sessions, another experimenter visited the classes. He was not told which class was the one who was told, and which class was shown. However, the experimenter was told exactly what they were told or shown to do in that particular school. As the classes were told to clean up the room the experimenter used direct observation to determine which class followed their instructions (cleaned up) better, and recorded it.
             The experimental design included an independent variable, the telling or showing how to
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