Using Guided Discovery to Improve Students’ Retention and Academic Attitudes to Financial Accounting Concepts

Table 2

ANCOVA of postattitude rating of students by treatments, gender, and SES.

Source	Type III sum of squares	Df	Mean square	F	Sig.	Partial eta squared
Corrected model	3251.202^a	12	270.933	38.319	0.000	0.774
Intercept	428.152	1	428.152	60.554	0.000	0.311
Pretest	1854.795	1	1854.795	262.328	0.000	0.662
Treatment	2438.872	1	2438.872	344.935	0.000	0.720
Gender	10.994	1	10.994	1.555	0.215	0.011
SES	1.794	2	0.897	0.127	0.881	0.002
TreatmentGender	0.043	1	0.043	0.006	0.938	0.000
TreatmentSES	5.809	2	2.905	0.411	0.664	0.006
GenderSES	4.380	2	2.190	0.310	0.734	0.005
TreatmentGenderSES	2.530	2	1.265	0.179	0.836	0.003
Error	947.451	134	7.071
Total	236289.000	147
Corrected total	4198.653	146

Dependent variable: postattitude rating. R squared = 0.774 (adjusted R squared = 0.754). Computed using alpha = 0.05.