Effects of Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction on Grade 9 Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension

Table 5

Comparison of the mean scores of the nontreatment and treatment groups on questions that require a lower level of thinking.

S. No.	Subskills of reading	No. of items	Treatment group (35)				Nontreatment group (33)
			Before intervention		After intervention		Before intervention		After intervention
			Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
1	Explicitly stated ideas	9	4.72	2.16	6.45	1.66	4.72	2.16	5.72	1.46
2	Fill in the blank spaces	2	0.60	0.81	1.00	0.84	0.48	0.79	0.78	0.92
3	Put ideas in order	2	0.60	0.65	1.14	0.77	0.60	0.65	0.69	0.58
4	Search-specific ideas	8	2.51	1.22	4.60	1.88	3.30	1.92	4.15	1.64
5	Total	21	2.1	1.21	3.29	1.28	2.27	1.38	2.83	1.15