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

Table 8

Independent samples t-test results for each subskill of reading.

S. No.	Subskills of reading	No. of questions	Test	t	df	Sig. 2-tailed
1	Reference questions	3	TBI	0.575	66	0.568
			TAI	–2.126	66	0.037
2	Guessing meanings	8	TBI	1.145	66	0.257
			TAI	–2.796	66	0.007
3	Search main ideas	4	TBI	1.893	66	0.063
			TAI	–3.990	66	0.000
4	Evaluate the text	1	TBI	1.188	66	0.239
			TAI	–7.468	66	0.000
5	Inferential understanding	2	TBI	1.808	66	0.075
			TAI	–5.573	66	0.000