International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
Research Participants
The treatment groups were composed of First Year Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd I) students of
Eng. 2: Writing in the Discipline during the Second Semester of Academic Year 2012-2013. They were equated
according to group size, mental ability, and vocabulary ability.
Mental ability was based from the results of the Mental Ability Test (MD5 Mental Ability Test) which is one
of the components of the entrance examination.
The respondents were grouped using Randomized Matching. Randomized matching means matching subjects
first and then randomly assign to groups. Hence, from the result of the MD5 Mental Ability Test, the researcher
segregated the names of students who have above-average mental ability. Considering that this study needed
four treatment groups, he then drew four names and randomly assigned each one to each of the four treatment
groups. The same process was repeated for students who have average and/or low mental ability until the desired
number of respondents per group was completed and equated.
As to vocabulary ability, the scores obtained by the students in the Gate-MacGinitie Reading Test
(Vocabulary Test only) was treated as raw scores and became the basis of equating the four groups in vocabulary
ability.
Table 1 presents the distribution of the research participants in four (4) treatment groups and table 2 shows
the scores of the participants in both mental ability and vocabulary ability tests.
Table 1 Distribution of the research subjects in treatment groups
Treatment Groups (TG)
TG1: MLI with full visual and verbal cues 15
TG2: MLI with limited visual and full verbal cues 15
TG3: MLI with limited visual and no verbal cues 15
TG4: MLI with no visual and full verbal cues 15
Total 60
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Table 2 Mental ability and vocabulary ability scores of the research participants
Research T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4
Subjects MA VA MA VA MA VA MA VA
1 96 39 96 34 96 45 96 39
2 91 37 91 34 91 40 91 33
3 88 38 88 35 88 41 88 39
4 83 36 83 34 83 39 83 34
5 78 38 75 34 78 34 75 33
6 65 34 70 36 65 24 70 30
7 61 31 61 31 61 36 61 39
8 57 32 57 36 57 23 57 33
9 52 27 52 29 52 24 52 34
10 50 36 50 34 50 35 50 35
11 45 36 45 33 45 36 45 28
12 36 40 36 34 36 34 36 35
13 33 23 33 29 33 36 33 28
14 27 35 27 30 27 33 27 35
15 17 34 17 36 17 30 17 36
Total 58.6 34.4 58.73333 33.26667 58.6 34 58.73333 34.06667
Instruments
Gates-MacGinitie Vocabulary Test. For the purpose of equating the subjects of this study in terms of their
vocabulary skills, the researcher administered the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test. This reading test was
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