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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Spec Educ. 2005 Jun;39(2):66–85. doi: 10.1177/00224669050390020301

Table 3.

Random Coefficients Model Estimate for Letter-Word Identification W Score with Intercept at T5

Effect Estimate Effect size t or Z value* p value
Fixed effects
 Intercept 477.05 144.17 < .0001
 Condition1 8.52 0.245 2.12 0.0346
 Linear time 18.36 1.070 9.25 < .0001
 Linear × condition −1.52 0.069 −0.60 0.5461
 Quadratic time −1.77 0.500 −4.32 < .0001
 Quadratic × condition −1.12 0.223 −1.93 0.0545
 Selection2 13.54 0.348 3.01 0.0029
 Condition × selection −4.45 0.083 −0.72 0.4699
 Linear × selection −0.64 0.059 −0.51 0.6128
 Linear × condition × selection −3.62 0.245 −2.12 0.0349
 Ethnicity3 2.68 0.090 0.78 0.4342
 Linear × ethnicity 4.06 0.494 4.27 < .0001
Grade level4 2.82 0.106 0.92 0.3561
 Linear × grade level −12.15 1.655 −14.31 < .0001
Random effects
 Intercept 289.79 5.30 <.0001
 Linear time 8.68 0.21 0.8299
 Quadratic time 1.14 0.50 0.6187
 Residual 254.67 14.60 <.0001
 Covariance between intercept and time −174.18 −5.50 <.0001
 Covariance between intercept and quadratic −46.61 −6.37 <.0001
 Covariance between time and quadratic 1.39 0.15 0.8810
*

t value for fixed effects, Wald Z values for random effects

1

Condition coded 1 for intervention 0 for control

2

Selection coded 1 for aggression 0 for reading

3

Ethnicity coded 1 for Hispanic 0 for non-Hispanic

4

Grade level coded 1 for 2nd & 3rd 0 for Kindergarten & 1st