Research Article

Deployment of Background Knowledge and Performance in Comprehension Passage Reading among Primary School Learners in Vihiga County, Kenya

Table 2

Chi-square test summary results.

Background knowledge activation practicesTest results
χ2df

Evoking the known26.266120.010
Previewing texts22.313120.034
Using context clues31.408120.002
Meaning guessing26.995120.008
Slow careful reading23.926120.021

Significance at error margins, respectively.