Using Guided Discovery to Improve Students’ Retention and Academic Attitudes to Financial Accounting Concepts

Table 5

Summary of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) of retention test of students by treatments, gender, and SES.

Source	Type III sum of squares	Df	Mean square	F	Sig.	Partial eta squared
Corrected model	5038.718^a	12	419.893	297.045	0.000	0.964
Intercept	94.715	1	94.715	67.004	0.000	0.333
Pretest	29.057	1	29.057	20.555	0.000	0.133
Treatment	544.832	1	544.832	385.431	0.000	0.742
Gender	2.185	1	2.185	1.545	0.216	0.011
SES	1.428	2	0.714	0.505	0.605	0.007
Treatmentgender	2.875	1	2.875	2.034	0.156	0.015
TreatmentSES	1.512	2	0.756	0.535	0.587	0.008
GenderSES	5.801	2	2.901	2.052	0.132	0.030
TreatmentgenderSES	.364	2	0.182	0.129	0.879	0.002
Error	189.418	134	1.414
Total	61496.000	147
Corrected total	5228.136	146

Dependent variable: retention test. R squared = 0.964 (adjusted R squared = 0.961). Computed using alpha = 0.05.