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dc.contributor.authorStJohn, Cassandra
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-02T15:42:13Z
dc.date.available2017-06-02T15:42:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11558/2488
dc.descriptionMaster of Education (M.Ed.) Thesis
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teacher-led and student-led Socratic discussion on reading comprehension scores of eighth grade students. The sample consisted of 11 females and 12 males who were emolled in a Title I public school in East Tennessee. Data were collected using EasyCBM reading comprehension assessments. The tests were administered twice. The first test was administered after students engaged in teacher-led Socratic discussions; the second test was administered after students engaged in student-led Socratic discussions. The data were analyzed using a paired samples t-test. The results indicated that there was no significant difference between students' reading comprehension scores after engaging in teacher-led and student-led Socratic discussions (t(22) =-1.271. P>0.05). Two independent t-tests were also conducted in order to determine whether there was a difference between males and females ' scores after engaging in the respective Socratic discussions. The results indicated that there was not a significant difference between males and females after teacher-led Socratic discussions (t (21) = 0.578, p>0.05). Likewise, the results for the third research question indicated that there was not a significant difference between males and females after student-led Socratic discussion (t (16) = - 1.77, p>0.05). The results suggest that more research should be conducted to determine the effects of teacher-led and student-led Socratic discussion.en_US
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dc.subjectReading comprehensionen_US
dc.subjectDiscussion, student-leden_US
dc.subjectDiscussion, Socraticen_US
dc.subjectDiscussion, teacher-leden_US
dc.subjectMaster of Education (M.Ed.) Thesis
dc.titleThe Effects of Socratic Method and Student-Led Discussion on Eighth Grade Students' Reading Comprehensionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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