Saudi female secondary EFL students who used Edmodo alongside traditional teaching showed more positive EFL learning attitudes than a control group after six weeks¶

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q2 i? In a post-treatment Mann-Whitney comparison, the experimental group's mean rank (28.79) exceeded the control group's (14.21) on total EFL learning attitude, a statistically significant difference. → Al-Kathiri 2014

Evidence¶

Al-Kathiri 2014¶

Fatimah Al-Kathiri. (2014). Beyond the Classroom Walls: Edmodo in Saudi Secondary School EFL Instruction, Attitudes and Challenges. English Language Teaching, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v8n1p189

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Field quasi-experiment with 42 female second-grade students (21 experimental, 21 control) at a Riyadh public secondary school; post-treatment attitude scales compared via Mann-Whitney U. The article reports "a statistically signi ficant difference" favoring the experimental group; no effect size is printed.

"The results show that there is a statistically signi ficant difference between the mean rank score of the experimental group (28.79) and that of the control group (14.21) in favor of the experimental group."

Discussion¶

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