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

Table 7

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

S. No.	Subskills of reading	No. of questions	Treatment group (35)				Nontreatment group (33)
			Before intervention		After intervention		Before intervention		After intervention
			Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
1	Reference questions	3	1.05	0.83	1.68	1.20	1.18	1.12	0.96	1.05
2	Guessing meanings	8	2.54	1.14	4.08	1.61	2.93	3.03	1.48	2.54
3	Search main ideas	4	1.48	1.03	2.34	1.18	2.00	1.33	0.78	1.48
4	Evaluate the text	1	0.37	0.49	0.82	0.38	0.51	0.15	0.36	0.37
5	Inferential understanding	2	0.40	0.65	1.05	0.68	0.60	0.18	0.58	0.40
	Grand mean	18	1.16	0.82	1.99	1.01	1.44	1.16	0.83	1.16