Verbal ability has a significant main effect on primary students’ interest in mathematics, with higher verbal ability groups scoring higher¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q2 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i2 Verbal ability had a significant main effect on interest in mathematics (partial eta squared = 0.067), with high verbal ability students scoring highest and low verbal ability students lowest. → Frederick-Jonah 2015 q2 i? Post-hoc tests showed significant differences between high and low, and between medium and low, verbal ability groups. → Frederick-Jonah 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Frederick-Jonah 2015¶

Frederick-Jonah, T. M. & Igbojinwaekwu, P. C. (2015). Effectiveness of Game and Poem Enhanced Instructional Strategies and Verbal Ability on Students’ Interest in Mathematics Learning. Journal of Research in Education, 25(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1098014

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ANCOVA of verbal ability (three levels) on posttest interest in the same quasi-experimental study. The article reports the main effect was "significant" with "partial eta squared=0.067".

"Table 4 indicates that, the main effect is significant on students’ interest in mathematics, F (2,340) =12.168; p< 0.05; partial eta squared=0.067). The effect size is 6.7%."

Frederick-Jonah 2015 (2)¶

Frederick-Jonah, T. M. & Igbojinwaekwu, P. C. (2015). Effectiveness of Game and Poem Enhanced Instructional Strategies and Verbal Ability on Students’ Interest in Mathematics Learning. Journal of Research in Education, 25(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1098014

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Scheffe post-hoc comparisons among verbal ability groups; the article reports high significantly better than medium, and medium better than low; no effect size is printed for these pairs.

"Table 6 shows that students with high verbal ability have significantly better mean score of 14.469 than students with medium verbal ability with a mean score of 14.090. Also, students with medium verbal ability are better than those with low verbal ability with a mean score of 12.457."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Instructional strategy has a significant main effect on primary students’ posttest interest in mathematics — related
• Poem-enhanced instruction produced higher posttest interest than game-enhanced and modified lecture instruction — related
• Treatment and verbal ability interact significantly in their effect on students’ interest in mathematics — related