Table 4.

WIAT 2 Correlations at Fifth and Seventh Grade Among Measures Used as Indicators of Factors^a, ^b, ^c, ^d in the CFA for Older Cohort

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Mean	SD
1) Sentence Compa	—	−.01	.07	.05	.08	.14	.16	.06	.06	9.56	0.63
2) Rec/Exp Vocaba	.26	—	.13	.29	.19	.48	.01	.26	.28	24.71	3.56
3) Visual Pass Retellb	.17	.13	—	.09	.49	.21	.26	.26	.27	19.82	4.88
4) Oral Word Fluencyb	.00	.43	.13	—	.16	.31	31	.13	.21	31.41	7.40
5) Giving Directionsb	.09	.15	.29	.11	—	.22	.13	.11	.39	16.91	3.34
6) Reading Compc	.27	.65	.24	.36	.14	—	.19	.37	.35	115.51	7.25
7) Writ Word Fluencyd	.02	.19	.01	.15	.03	.24	—	.30	.32	12.40	3.95
8) Sentence Combined	.22	.39	.17	.26	.16	.32	.26	—	.45	4.88	2.07
9) Paragraph Writingd	.23	.36	.22	.17	.23	.37	.19	.56	—	17.86	4.00
Mean	9.14	22.14	17.86	27.74	14.60	116.27	9.08	6.55	15.54
SD	0.92	3.85	4.74	5.97	3.44	9.29	3.74	2.38	3.81

Note: Correlations, means and standard deviations (SD) for 5th graders (N=103) are below diagonal (r=.20 or greater, p < .05). Correlations, means and standard deviations (SD) for 7^th graders (N=98) are above diagonal (r=.20 or greater, p < .05). See Methods for complete names of tasks in each WIAT II subtest. Raw scores for tasks were entered as indicators of latent variables.

^aListening Comprehension Factor

^bOral Expression Factor

^cReading Comprehension Factor

^dWritten Expression Factor