Microsoft Word 1-Experimental Analysis on the Development of Cognitive Processes in Childhood through Body Experience

L1-Comprehension of Instructions Outcomes 
As for the model assumptions, there are no outliers and the data are distributed normally, as evidenced by 
Shapiro-Wilk’s normality test (p > 0.05). Mauchly’s sphericity test indicates that the assumption of sphericity is 
confirmed for the didactics * time interaction, 
χ
2
(2) = 0.788, p = 0.044. The initial inspection of the line graph 

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(Figure 4) and of the descriptive statistics (Table 6) allows obtaining an initial impression of the interaction 
between the “between-subjects” factor and the “within-subjects” one, which seems to exist among the 
participants under investigation. To investigate the effect of interaction on the subjects (Fox, 2008), we refer to 
the F-test. There was a statistically significant interaction between didactics and time on L1, F (2, 42) = 25.765, 
p
< 0.001, partial 
η
2
= 0.551. This value indicates that, from the initial inspection, we correctly interpreted that 
there are different effects of different groups (type of didactics) on the “L1 language” mean over time. In 
practice, this means that L1 mean changes differently over time depending on the type of didactics, i.e., if it is 
of classic, Montessori or unstructured type. Moreover, L1 mean is lower for the Classic-type didactics group 
(-3.87 ± 0.84, p = 0.001) and that of Montessori type (-3.02 ± 0.67, p = 0.001) on a statistically significant level 
compared to the unstructured-type didactics (the data are mean ± standard error if not indicated differently). 
Figure 4. 
L1-Comprehension of Instructions Outcomes.

Table 6 
Pairwise Comparisons 
Measure: Measure_1 
(I) Didactic 
(J) Didactic 
Mean Difference 
(I-J) 
Std. 
Error 
Sign.
b
95% Confidence Interval for 
Difference
b
Lower Bound 
Upper Bound 
1 
2 -0.864 1.083 
1.000 
-3.680 
1.953 
3 -3.886
*
0.841 
0.000 
-6.073 
-1.700 
2 
1 0.864 1.083 
1.000 
-1.953 
3.680 
3 -3.023
*
0.671 
0.001 
-4.769 
-1.276 
3 
1 3.886
*
0.841 
0.000 
1.700 
6.073 
2 3.023
*
0.671 
0.001 
1.276 
4.769 
Notes.
Based on estimated marginal means, *. The difference is significant at the 0.05 level; b. Adjustment for multiple 
comparisons: Bonferroni. 

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