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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Except Child. 2009 Oct 1;76(1):31–51. doi: 10.1177/001440290907600102

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.

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PP = pre–post design,

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GC = growth curve design.