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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2008 May;44(3):695–706. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.3.695

Table 2.

Number of children credited with correct reading span sequence recall on first assessment.


9-year-olds 11-year-olds
Sequence length order
Ascending (n=37) Descending (n=27) Ascending (n=37) Descending (n=27)

List-length-2 37 (37) 27 (20) 37 (37) 27 (24)
List-length-3 18 (14) 17 (12) 33 (29) 21 (21)
List-length-4 4 (3) 1 (1) 15 (14) 7 (7)
List-length-5 0 (0) 2 (2) 0 (0) 0 (0)

Note. Number of children with analysable sequences for recall timing in parentheses.