A Researcher Studies the Effect on Reading Comprehension Level of Providing

A researcher studies the effect on reading comprehension level of providing fourth-grade boys who are slow and ponderous readers with illustrated comic books for a 6-week summer session instead of textbooks, hypothesizing that reading associated with pictures will result in a higher reading comprehension level. The researcher sets the level of significance at p < 0.05. Analysis of the data indicates that there was a significant difference between the two groups, which were randomly selected and composed of 100 subjects each. However, the experimental comic book group's scores improved less than did the scores of the boys who used the textbooks. The measured p-level was 0.026. What type of finding is this?

A) Significant results that are in keeping with those by the researcher
B) Nonsignificant results
C) Significant results that oppose those predicted by the researcher
D) Mixed results