Individual writing-test scores improved for all thirty students between cycles, with gains ranging from 6.3% to 30.8% and no student declining¶

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q2 i? Every student's score improved from cycle one to cycle two, with improvement percentages from 6.3% to 30.8% and an average improvement of 16.5%; students with lower first-cycle scores tended to improve more. → Arifani 2016

Evidence¶

Arifani 2016¶

Arifani, Y. (2016). The Implementation of Team-Based Discovery Learning to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Research Proposal. International Education Studies, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v9n2p111

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Comparison of individual writing-test scores between the first and second cycles for all thirty students (Table 2). The article reports improvement "varied from the lowest score 6.3% to the highest score 30.8%" and that "all students show improvement in the score."

"The percentage of the improvement varied from the lowest score 6.3% to the highest score 30.8% with the av erage of score 16.5%. This table also explained that all students show improvement in the score."

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