An Action Research Cycle in an Academic Skills Course

V. Results

The results were tabulated and statistics generated using Statview (1999) to calculate the pre-test and post-test mean scores for the students in each class. The pretest mean score for the Academic Skills course was 18.688 with a kurtosis of .418 and a skewness of -.744. The midterm mean score (the pretest was administered a second time for a midterm) was 20 with a -.023 kurtosis and a -.729 skewness. The post-test mean score was 24.120 with a -.199 kurtosis and a -.796 skewness. In the Oral English class, given the midterm and the final, the midterm mean score was 14.435 with a -.933 kurtosis and a -.129 skewness. The second Oral English class given the final, then the midterm, had a pretest mean score of 14.393 with a skewness of .409 and a -1.066 kurtosis. The mean score on the second test was 17.669 with a .066 skewness and a -1.179 kurtosis.

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