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