No significant difference existed between the two groups on the word knowledge pretest¶

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q2 i? Before treatment, the experimental and control groups showed no significant difference in prior knowledge of the 60 target words. → Davoudi 2016

Evidence¶

Davoudi 2016¶

Davoudi, M., & Yousefi, D. (2016). The Effect of Keyword Method on Vocabulary Retension of Senior High School EFL Learners in Iran. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(11). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1099563

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Independent-samples t-test on the 60-item word knowledge pretest checklist administered before treatment; means were M=3.10 (experimental) and M= 3.00 (control), indicating the target words were almost new to all participants. Equivalence was not formally tested beyond this non-significant result.

"The results of t-test demonstrated that there was no sig nificance difference between two groups on the word knowledge pretest (t= 0.126, Sig= 0.90 ˃ 0.05)."

Discussion¶

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