The effectiveness of instructional software in reading comprehension skills and reading aloud of Omani fourth basic schools’ students

Technology, Innovation and Education

Table 6 Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) of the experimental and control groups post-test scores in reading comprehension

Read. Comp. Items	Group	N	M	SD
Understand content	Experimental	52	0.70	0.27
Understand content	Control	53	0.34	0.29
Realize the temporal and locative arrangement	Experimental	52	0.61	0.38
Realize the temporal and locative arrangement	Control	53	0.21	0.24
Distinguish between compact and pronounced article ‘lam’	Experimental	52	0.97	0.11
Distinguish between compact and pronounced article ‘lam’	Control	53	0.65	0.36
Recognize end of words extension ‘med’ and formation ‘tanween’	Experimental	52	0.80	0.19
	Control	53	0.33	0.29
Differentiate between folded and normal letter ‘Taa’	Experimental	52	0.78	0.30
Differentiate between folded and normal letter ‘Taa’	Control	53	0.61	0.34
Reading comprehension	Experimental	52	0.80	0.14
Reading comprehension	Control	53	0.43	0.18