Table 7 |
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| Results of the mixed-effects meta-regressions for the continuous moderator variables on the effect sizes obtained from measures of knowledge in the posttest | |||||||||
| Cluster / Moderator variable | k | Min. | Max. | Mean | SD | bj | QR | QE(df) | R2 |
| (A) Treatment characteristics: | |||||||||
| Treatment duration (weeks) | 15 | 1.0 | 96.0 | 17.5 | 32.1 | −0.012 | 6.60** | 144.46(13)*** | 0.430 |
| Treatment intensity (hours/week) | 12 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | −0.059 | 0.03 | 142.28(10)*** | 0.0 |
| Treatment magnitude (total hours) | 12 | 0.2 | 19.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | −0.001 | 0.00 | 128.72(10)*** | 0.026 |
| (B) Subject characteristics: | |||||||||
| Mean age (years) | 14 | 8.0 | 12.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.130 | 0.48 | 345.18(12)*** | 0.0 |
| Gender (% male) | 14 | 45.8 | 58.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 0.029 | 0.20 | 384.63(12)*** | 0.0 |
| (C) Methodological characteristics: | |||||||||
| Differential attrition | 16 | 0.0 | 0.033 | 0.004 | 0.009 | −24.205 | 1.14 | 355.39(14)*** | 0.0 |
| Quality score | 16 | 3.4 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 1.1 | 0.282 | 2.71 | 267.05(14)*** | 0.177 |
| (D) Extrinsic characteristic: | |||||||||
| Publication year | 16 | 1984 | 2011 | 2003 | 8.4 | −0.014 | 0.28 | 370.92(14)*** | 0.0 |
* p < .05. ** p < .01. *** p < .001. k: number of studies. Min. and Max.: minimum and maximum values of the moderator variable. SD: standard deviation of the moderator variable. bj: unstandardized regression coefficient associated to the moderator variable. QR: statistic for testing the significance of the moderator variable. QE: statistic for testing the model misspecification. df: degrees of freedom. R2: proportion of variance accounted for by the moderator variable.
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