Team-based discovery learning improved EFL students' research proposal writing across two action-research cycles, with cycle-two average score 85.8 above the success criterion¶

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q2 i? In the second cycle, 90% of the thirty students reached the success criterion with an average score of 85.8, compared with 36.7% meeting the criterion in the first cycle. → Arifani 2016

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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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Classroom action research with two cycles of seven meetings each; pretest-posttest scores from thirty seventh-semester EFL students. The article reports "the average score achieved 90% with average score 85.8 above the criteria of success" in cycle two, versus 36.7% meeting criteria in cycle one.

"The students’ total scores calculated were satisfactory because from thirty students the average score achieved 90% with average score 85.8 above the criteria of success."

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