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

Table 3

Multiple regression analysis summary results.

Model		Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients	T	Sig.
		B	Std. error	Beta
1	(Constant)	32.351	2.745		5.631	0.000
	Background knowledge deployment	0.623	0.208	0.412	1.965	0.041
	Age	0.364	0.682	0.045	0.533	0.595
	Gender	−0.002	1.200	−0.000	−0.002	0.999
	School	−1.496	1.198	−0.235	−1.249	0.214
	Exposure to pretesting	4.346	2.665	0.306	1.631	0.105
2	(Constant)	26.574	2.732		4.095	0.000
	Background knowledge deployment	0.585	0.141	0.403	1.902	0.059
	Age	0.325	0.405	0.059	0.801	0.425
	Gender	−0.053	0.747	−0.005	−0.071	0.944
	School	−1.350	0.740	−0.294	−1.825	0.070
	Exposure to pretesting	2.770	1.639	0.273	1.691	0.067

Dependent variable: postintervention test scores. Significance at error margins, respectively.