M Ed Analysis Section 2

1 M ED Analysis (Part 2) (Stepwise Multiple Regression Analyses) Stepwise Multiple Regression Analyses using Overall creativity as the criterion variable and all independent variables (sex, Academic achievement, Learning style) of this study as the predictors.

Significant Predictor variables

Sex Academic Achievement Integrated Learning Style

From the table, sex is the best single predictor of overall creativity which account for about 12% of total variance of overall creativity. Academic together with sex account for 15% of total variance of overall creativity. When the third predictor is added to the predictor equation, the total variance is about 17%. The remaining 83% of the total variance of overall creativity is not accounted for. Results indicated that sex differences contribute quite substantially to the variance of overall creativity scores. This finding confirms the results of 3-way ANOVA where sex is shown to be a highly significant effect on overall creativity. Results also suggest that there is a large portion of variance of overall creativity is unaccounted for. There may be other factors or variables which affect the creativity of the pupils and which are predictors of their overall creativity. Stepwise multiple regression analysis using Figural creativity as the criterion variable and all independent variables as the predictors.

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Significant Predictor Variables

Sex

Table shows that sex is the best and only predictor of Figural creativity and it accounts for about 5% of the total variance of figural creativity. Remaining 95% of total variance is unaccounted for. Resaults show that sex differences contribute to the total variance of Figural creativity and confirms the results of 3-way ANOVA where sex is significantly affecting Figural creativity. Large portion of the variance of Figural creativity is unaccounted for suggesting other factors or variables are affecting the figural creativity of the pupils. Stepwise multiple regression analysis using Verball creativity as the criterion variable and all the independent variables as the predictors.

Significant Predictor Variables

Academic Achievement

Sex

3 Results show that academic achievement and sex differences contribute substantially to the variance of verbal creativity score. This result confirms the 3way ANOVA where academic achievement has been shown to be significantly correlated with verbal creativity together with sex contributed about 25% of the total variance of verbal creativity. A large portion of the variance is unaccounted for indicating there are other factors which may have to be taken into consideration when one attempts to predict verbal creativity. Results and Interpretations (How do you describe for Second Last Chapter) (Example)

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