Open AccessCompletely Randomized Block Design for Assessment of the Gender and Personality Effect on Reading Comprehension Ability
Author(s) -
Suparman Ujang Suparman,
Hasan Hariri,
Een Yahya Haenilah,
Usman Mustofa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
xi'nan jiaotong daxue xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 0258-2724
DOI - 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.55.4.21
Subject(s) - personality psychology , reading comprehension , significant difference , psychology , reading (process) , mathematics education , variance (accounting) , block (permutation group theory) , comprehension , personality , computer science , statistics , mathematics , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , accounting , business , programming language
The objectives of the current study were to analyze the following problems: First, to determine if there was any significant difference between male and female engineering students’ reading comprehension; and second, whether there was any significant difference in engineering students’ reading comprehension ability among different types of personalities. The participants comprised 190 engineering students at Sumatra Institute of Technology, South Lampung Indonesia, taking English for Specific Purposes. The data were collected through an experiment, where the design experiment used in this study was Completely Randomized Block Design, in which the departments were considered blocks. The data were analyzed by using analysis of variance and the results showed there was no difference in students’ RC ability between genders; but there were significant differences in their RC ability across different types of personalities.