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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2010 May 1;102(2):327–340. doi: 10.1037/a0018448

Table 8.

Number of True Negatives Eliminated, with Associated Cut-scores, Using Timed and Untimed Measures of Word-level Reading Skill in a Two-Step Gated Procedure

Measure Cut-score TN Eliminated Percent Reduction
Sight Word Efficiency 111 144 40.5*
Phonemic Decoding Efficiency 108 154 43.4*
Word Identification 117 103 29.0*
Word Attack 113 136 38.3*

Note. N = 355. Cut-scores represented as standard scores. TN = true negatives

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p < .001