Bags
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Approach:  Station
ACCESS
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Evaluating decisions, strategies, outcomes and consequences  
Resources:
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Questions/instructions:  

Look at the four pictures of different types of school bags.
Think about what is good and not so good about each bag for carrying all your school things.



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% responses
2008 ('04)
y4
y8
1. Which bag would be the best to carry all your school things?
Circle your bag choice.
Bag:
1
9 (11)
7 (5)
 
2
3 (6)
2 (2)
 
3
5 (1)
7 (6)
 
4
83 (81)
84 (87)
2. Write down the reasons why you chose that bag.
 
carrying capacity
67 (73)
80 (76)
easy/comfortable to carry/frees hands
52 (51)
65 (68)
appearance/trendy
11 (18)
9 (17)
apparent durability/strength of fabric
3 (2)
5 (4)
Justification of choice:
strong
6 (12)
17 (13)
moderate
53 (48)
60 (56)
weak
41 (40)
23 (31)
3. For the other three bags write down the reasons why each one is not so good for carrying school things.
 
carrying capacity
57 (57)
76 (61)
ease to wear/carry (and security)
77 (78)
82 (87)
appearance
16 (21)
18 (23)
apparent durability/strength of fabric
3 (4)
4 (2)
 
Total score:
7–10
1 (5)
6 (7)
6
5 (5)
15 (11)
5
17 (22)
26 (26)
3–4
54 (50)
42 (42)
0–2
22 (19)
12 (14)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4


Year 8


Commentary:
Students greatly preferred the type of “backpack” bag that most of them use for school. They were typically able to provide a reasonable justification for their choice, even at year 4. There were negligible gender differences in response. At both year levels, scores were fairly similar to the 2004 scores.