Control-group students who received no vision-span training show no significant change in reading speed¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The control group's reading speed did not differ significantly between pre- and post-test (Wilcoxon Z = -.955, p = .339). → Kana'an et al. 2014

Evidence¶

Kana'an et al. 2014¶

Basim Hamdan Ibrahim Kana'an, Salahud Din Abdul Rab & Ahlullah Siddiqui. (2014). The Effect of Expansion of Vision Span on Reading Speed: A Case Study of EFL Major Students at King Khalid University. English Language Teaching, 7(10). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v7n10p57

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Wilcoxon signed-rank test on the untrained control group's pre- and post-test reading speed (Table 5: Z = -.955, Asymp. Sig. .339; 15 of 25 students slower, 10 faster, 0 ties). The article reports no significant difference; equivalence was not tested and no effect size is printed.

"Table 5 clearly shows that there is no significant difference in the reading speed of the subjects of the control group before and after the training, and hence, hypothesis 5 is also proved accurate."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Post-training reading speed differs significantly between the trained and untrained groups, which did not differ before training — related
• Training in expansion of vision span significantly increases the reading speed of EFL undergraduates from pre-test to post-test — related
• The trained test group's average reading speed rose 39 percent, from 73.6 to 102.3 wpm, while the control group's stayed near 75 wpm — related