TABLE 2.
Studies Included in Meta-Analysis
| Authors | Year | Design | Age | Grade | N | Ability Measure | Dependent Measure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allor, Fuchs, & Mathes | 2001 | PPa | 1 | 30 | PPVT-R | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack, Passage Comprehension | |
| Berninger et al. | 1999 | GCb | 7.5 | 48 | WISC-III Verbal IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack; CBM Word Reading Accuracy | |
| Berninger et al. | 2002 | PP | 1 | 87 | WISC-III Verbal IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification; WJ-R Word Attack | |
| Case, Speece, & Molloy | 2003 | GC | 1, 2, 3 | 36 | WISC-R Full Scale IQ | Oral Reading Fluency CBM | |
| Compton, Fuchs, Fuchs, & Bryant | 2006 | GC | 1 | 206 | WJ-R Oral Vocabulary | Word Identification Fluency CBM | |
| Foorman, Flrancis, Fletcher, & Schatschneider | 1998 | GC | 1–2 | 285 | WISC-R Verbal IQ | Pre-CTOPP (synthesis and analysis tests); WJ-R Letter Word Identification | |
| Hatcher & Hulme | 1999 | PP | 7.5 | 93 | WISC-R Verbal IQ | The BAS Word Reading Test A; Neale Analysis of Reading | |
| Hecht & Close | 2002 | PP | 5.5 | 42 | Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (4th ed.) Verbal IQ | WJ-R Letter Word Identification | |
| Mathes et al. | 2005 | GC | 1 | 161 | WASI Verbal IQ | TOWRE Sight Word Efficiency, Phonemic Decoding Efficiency, TCARE; Foorman Word List | |
| Nash, & Snowling | 2006 | PP | 7.5 | 24 | British Picture Vocabulary Scales–Revised | Neale Analysis of Reading Ability-R; Suffolk Reading Test | |
| O’Connor, Jenkins, Leicester, & Slocum | 1993 | PP | 4, 5, 6 | 36 | McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities–Full Scale IQ | 3 segmenting tasks not specified; 3 rhyming tasks not specified; 3 blending tasks not specified | |
| O’Shaughnessy & Swanson | 2000 | GC | 2 | 30 | WISC-III Full Scale IQ | CBM Oral Reading Fluency; 90 Word Analogy Training (WAT) words, 90 Phonological Awareness Training in Reading (PAT) words; WRMT Word Identification; WRMT-R Word Attack, Passage Comprehension | |
| Schneider, Ennemoser, Roth, & Kuspert | 1999 | PP | K | 190 | Culture Fair Intelligence Test– Performance IQ | Wurzburg Silent Reading Test | |
| Stage, Abbott, Jenkins, & Berninger | 2003 | GC | 6.73 | 128 | WISC-III Verbal IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack | |
| Torgesen, & Davis | 1996 | GC | K | 60 | Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (4th ed.) Verbal IQ | Phoneme Blending (not specified); Phoneme Segmenting (not specified) | |
| Torgesen et al. | 1999 | PP | 5 | 106 | Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (4th ed.) Verbal IQ | WRMT-R Word Attack, Word Identification | |
| Torgesen et al. | 2001 | PP | 8, 9, 10 | 50 | WISC-R Full Scale IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack, Passage Comprehension; GORT-III Rate | |
| Uhry & Shepherd | 1997 | PP | 1, 2 | 12 | WPPSI-R or WISC-III Full Scale IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack | |
| Vadasy, Jenkins, Antil, Wayne, & O’Connor | 1997 | PP | 1 | 17 | PPVT-R | WRAT-R Reading | |
| Vellutino, Scanlon, & Lyon | 2000 | GC | K–2 | 74 | WISC-R Verbal IQ, Performance IQ or Full Scale IQ | WRMT-R Basic Skills Cluster | |
| Vellutino, Scanlon, Zhang, & Schatschneider | 2008 | GC | K–3 | 1373 | WISC-III Verbal IQ, Performance IQ or Full Scale IQ | WRMT-R Word Identification, Word Attack | |
| Wise, Ring, & Olson | 1999 | PP | 2–5 | 104 | WISC-R Full Scale IQ | PIAT Word Recognition untimed; WRAT Reading Subtest Level 1 (screener); PIAT Word Recognition time-limited; WRMT-R Word Attack; PIAT Reading Comprehension; Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test & revised Rosner Test of Auditory Analysis Skills |
Note. WISC-III = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III; WISC-R = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised; WRMT-R = Word Reading Mastery Tests-Revised; WJ-III = Woodcock-Johnson-III; CBM = Curriculum-Based Measure; Pre-CTOPP = Pre Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing; TOWRE = Test of Word Reading Efficiency; PIAT = Peabody Individual Achievement Test; PPVT-R = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised; TCARE = Continuous Assessment for Reading Excellence; PAT = Phonological Awareness Training; GORT-III = Gray Oral Reading Test-III.
PP = pre–post design,
GC = growth curve design.