English Language Literacy Skills and Academic Achievement of Urban and Rural Secondary Schools: The Case of High and Low Achievers

Table 2

Low and high achievers’ writing skill scores.

	Achievement group	School category	N	Mean	SD	-value	Effect size (for )
1	Low achievers	Urban secondary schools	27	6.07	2.52	0.052	Not significant
		Rural secondary schools	48	5.08	1.79
2	High achievers	Urban secondary schools	36	8.11	2.94	0.071	Not significant
		Rural secondary schools	47	7.04	2.36