Findings and Discussion
3.1 Findings
The descriptive statistics of the data obtained from the teacher-made test of English administered prior to the
experiment are presented in Table 1. As the table shows, the mean of experimental group, the group with reading
strategies training is 63.89 (s.d=7.775), while that of the control group, the group with conventional technique is
61.46 (s.d.=10.057). The fact that the experimental group has slightly higher mean score with lower standard
deviation than the control group indicates that the students in the former group are a little bit smarter and are
more homogeneous than those in the latter group. As a result, the range of data (the difference between the
highest and lowest scores) in the experimental group is less than that in the control group since they are 28 in the
former group and 50 in the latter group. These initial differences are frequent in experimental research without
randomization; therefore Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was then used, instead of t-test, for the final data
analysis.
Findings and Discussion3.1 FindingsThe descriptive statistics of the data obtained from the teacher-made test of English administered prior to theexperiment are presented in Table 1. As the table shows, the mean of experimental group, the group with readingstrategies training is 63.89 (s.d=7.775), while that of the control group, the group with conventional technique is61.46 (s.d.=10.057). The fact that the experimental group has slightly higher mean score with lower standarddeviation than the control group indicates that the students in the former group are a little bit smarter and aremore homogeneous than those in the latter group. As a result, the range of data (the difference between thehighest and lowest scores) in the experimental group is less than that in the control group since they are 28 in theformer group and 50 in the latter group. These initial differences are frequent in experimental research withoutrandomization; therefore Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was then used, instead of t-test, for the final dataanalysis.
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