The experimental group's English reading comprehension improved significantly from pretest to posttest after DR-TA instruction¶

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q3 i? The experimental group showed significantly improved English reading comprehension at the 0.01 level after DR-TA instruction, t = 15.87, p = .000. → Chaemsai 2016

Evidence¶

Chaemsai 2016¶

Chaemsai, R. & Rattanavich, S. (2016). The Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) and the Traditional Approach Using Tales of Virtue based on His Majesty the King’s Teaching Concepts in Seventh Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension. English Language Teaching, 9(9). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n9p18

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T-test for dependent samples on the experimental group's reading comprehension scores (n = 50), within a randomized control group pretest-posttest design. Means rose from 15.90 at pretest to 23.04 at posttest, which the article reports as significantly improved "at the 0.01 level".

"The data presented in Table 4 indicates that the experimental group showed significantly improved English reading comprehension at the 0.01 level, after being taught through the DR-TA using tales of virtue based on the King’s teaching concepts(X = 15.90(Pretest),23.04(Posttest), S.D =4.87(Pretest), 4.50(Posttest), t = 15.87**)."

Discussion¶

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