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

Table 4

Literacy score of low and high achievers.

	Achievement group	School category	N	Mean	SD	-value	Effect size (for )
1	Low achievers	Urban secondary schools	27	12.96	3.16	0.48	Not significant
		Rural secondary schools	48	12.47	2.63
2	High achievers	Urban secondary schools	36	16.97	4.26	0.003	0.5
		Rural secondary schools	47	14.48	4.48