GBSRI significantly improved Thai undergraduates' overall English paragraph writing scores after eight weeks¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After eight weeks of GBSRI, participants' overall writing ability mean score rose from 16.89 to 26.53 out of 40, a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05). → Wiboonwachara 2022

Evidence¶

Wiboonwachara 2022¶

Wiboonwachara, L., & Charubusp, S. (2022). Implementing Genre-Based Self-Regulated Instruction (GBSRI) to Enhance the English Writing Ability of Thai Undergraduate Students. rEFLections, 29(3). https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/reflections doi:10.61508/refl.v29i3.262658

q2 · i? · causal · r1

One-group pretest-posttest quasi-experiment with 32 Thai first-year English majors; dependent t-test showed a significant difference between pre-test and post-test writing means "at a 0.05 level of significance (p < 0.05)". No effect size reported.

"the mean score of the participants, before participating in GBSRI, was 16.89 out of 40 (SD = 4.25). After eight weeks of practicing their writing through GBSRI, the mean score of the participants’ writing ability was 26.53 out of 40 (SD = 4.29)"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Three weeks of explicit language-focused strategy instruction produced no significant word-problem gain in this study — related
• A four-phase teaching process for congruent triangles significantly improves grade 8 students' test scores — related
• Both procedural and descriptive writing scores improved significantly after GBSRI — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Students expressed positive overall opinions of GBSRI, rating Independent Practicing highest and Post-writing lowest — related
• Most questionnaire respondents (96.88%) reported that GBSRI activities improved their writing, and collaborative activities were the most preferred — related
• Most interviewees attributed writing improvement to explicit instruction, scaffolding and collaborative learning, and self-regulated writing, though some felt uncomfortable in pair work — related
• Before the intervention, most students could not write assumptions and conclusions, and only one student achieved the maximum pre-test score — related
• Process Writing Improves Writing Quality — related
• Tekster, a strategy-focused writing instruction program, statistically significantly improves the writing quality of upper-elementary students, with an overall effect size of 0.32 — related