The article reports a statistically significant post-test difference between the blog group and the control group in reading skills, though its printed means show the control group scoring higher¶

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q2 i? The article reports a statistically significant difference between the experimental (blog) and control groups on the reading post-test, which it attributes in favor of the experimental group, although the printed means show the control group higher (14.4545 vs 9.0909). → Fattah 2016

Evidence¶

Fattah 2016¶

Said Fathy El Said Abdul Fattah. (2016). The Effectiveness of Using Blogs as an Independent Learning Tool to Develop Reading Skills for University Students. Journal of Education and Practice, Vol.7, No.32. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1122464

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Quasi-experimental post-test comparison (Table 1) of two groups of 11 first-year English majors; t-test for independent samples gave t = 6.151, Sig. .000. The printed means show the control group (M = 14.4545) higher than the experimental group (M = 9.0909), contradicting the stated direction "in favor of the experimental group".

"Experimental 11 9.0909 2.21154 .66680 6.151 ,000 Control 11 14.4545 1.86353 .56187"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The experimental blog group showed statistically significant pre-to-post gains in reading skills over the two-month treatment — related
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