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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2010 Jan 25;105(4):324–344. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.12.008

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

Full sample (n = 58) Combined letter
name and sound
condition (n = 20)
Letter sound only
condition (n = 20)
Number condition
(n = 18)




M SD Range M SD Range M SD Range M SD Range
  LN screening 3.53 2.70 0 – 8 3.65 2.80 0 – 8 3.40 2.50 0 – 8 3.56 2.96 0 – 8
Pretest
  Parent education 5.53 1.12 1.00 – 7.00 5.73 0.88 4.00 – 7.00 5.14 1.54 1.00 – 7.00 5.71 0.71 4.50 – 7.00
  Age (years) 3.77 0.62 2.77 – 5.00 3.70 0.65 2.77 – 5.00 3.78 0.56 2.79 – 4.86 3.83 0.66 2.97 – 4.95
  LS 0.95 1.88 0 – 9 0.90 2.02 0 – 7 1.05 2.06 0 – 9 0.89 1.57 0 – 5
  Voc SS 98.29 11.36 64 – 125 100.40 9.80 85 – 119 95.50 10.80 64 – 108 99.06 13.42 77 – 125
  PA raw score 10.95 5.34 0 – 23 11.20 5.15 1 – 22 10.60 5.88 0 – 23 11.06 5.20 2 – 21
  PA SS 92.72 12.89 69 – 124 94.35 10.97 72 – 110 91.40 13.83 69 – 120 92.39 14.26 72 – 124
  Number ID 2.84 3.10 0 – 10 2.75 3.19 0 – 9 2.50 2.78 0 – 8 3.33 3.43 0 – 10
Posttest
  LN 8.84 6.52 0 – 25 10.40 8.22 0 – 25 7.35 5.27 0 – 16 8.78 5.51 0 – 20
  LS 3.03 4.42 0 – 20 4.35 5.98 0 – 20 2.60 3.44 0 – 15 2.06 3.00 0 – 9
  PA raw score 13.28 4.43 3 – 27 13.90 4.23 7 – 21 12.80 4.46 3 – 21 13.11 4.79 7 – 27
  PA SS 97.48 11.46 72 – 126 101.25 9.09 85 – 115 95.15 12.48 72 – 123 95.89 12.18 79 – 126
  Number ID 5.19 4.11 0 – 16 4.85 3.54 1 – 11 3.75 3.40 0 – 11 7.17 4.81 0 – 16

Note. LN = letter name; LS = letter sound; Voc = Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test; SS = standard score; PA = Test of Preschool Emergent Literacy Phonological Awareness subtest; Number ID = number identification assessment.