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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2010 Feb 1;102(1):32–42. doi: 10.1037/a0017288

Table 1.

Means and standard deviations for normed tests for separate country samples

Grades Test US Australia

Mean SD Mean SD

Kindergarten TOWRE SWE 97.0 10.5 104.0 10.3
TOWRE PDE 102.1 8.4 107.3 8.8
Grade 1 TOWRE SWE 102.3 14.0 110.0 12.8
TOWRE PDE 100.8 12.8 109.5 12.7
WRAT Spelling 100.2 15.4 113.1 15.5
TOWRE PDE 100.8 12.8 109.5 12.7
Grade 2 TOWRE SWE 102.5 14.4 110.7 13.2
TOWRE PDE 100.0 13.4 110.3 14.4
WRAT Spelling 96.8 16.0 107.0 5.9
WPC 100.0 12.1 109.4 10.3

Note: TOWRE SWE = Test of Word Recognition Efficiency, Sight Word Efficiency Form A; TOWRE PDE = Test of Word Recognition Efficiency, Phonemic Decoding Efficiency Form A; WRAT = Wide Range Achievement Test; WPC = Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (Revised), Passage Comprehension.