Research Article
Using Guided Discovery to Improve Students’ Retention and Academic Attitudes to Financial Accounting Concepts
Table 5
Summary of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) of retention test of students by treatments, gender, and SES.
| Source | Type III sum of squares | Df | Mean square | F | Sig. | Partial eta squared |
| Corrected model | 5038.718a | 12 | 419.893 | 297.045 | 0.000 | 0.964 | Intercept | 94.715 | 1 | 94.715 | 67.004 | 0.000 | 0.333 | Pretest | 29.057 | 1 | 29.057 | 20.555 | 0.000 | 0.133 | Treatment | 544.832 | 1 | 544.832 | 385.431 | 0.000 | 0.742 | Gender | 2.185 | 1 | 2.185 | 1.545 | 0.216 | 0.011 | SES | 1.428 | 2 | 0.714 | 0.505 | 0.605 | 0.007 | Treatmentgender | 2.875 | 1 | 2.875 | 2.034 | 0.156 | 0.015 | TreatmentSES | 1.512 | 2 | 0.756 | 0.535 | 0.587 | 0.008 | GenderSES | 5.801 | 2 | 2.901 | 2.052 | 0.132 | 0.030 | TreatmentgenderSES | .364 | 2 | 0.182 | 0.129 | 0.879 | 0.002 | Error | 189.418 | 134 | 1.414 | | | | Total | 61496.000 | 147 | | | | | Corrected total | 5228.136 | 146 | | | | |
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Dependent variable: retention test. R squared = 0.964 (adjusted R squared = 0.961). Computed using alpha = 0.05.
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