Table 6.

WIAT II Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for Older Cohort (Four Factor Model)

	Grade 5		Grade 7
	Loadinga	Zb	Loadinga	Zb
Listening
Sentence Comprehension	.34	3.39***	--	---
Receptive/Expressive Vocabulary	.78	5.53***	1.00	—c
Oral Expression
Visual Passage Retell	.34	2.89***	.65	5.49***
Word Fluency	.52	3.64***	.25	1.89
Giving Directions	.30	2.44***	.72	6.83***
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension	1.00	—c	1.00	—c
Written Expression
Word Fluency	.24	2.36**	.41	4.09***
Sentences	.73	7.25***	.61	5.95***
Paragraph Writing	.76	7.45***	.76	7.11***
Covariances
Listening Comp ↔ Oral Expression	.84	3.88***	.28	2.62**
Listening Comp ↔ Reading Comprehension	.84	5.72***	.48	3.37***
Listening Comp ↔ Written Expression	.67	4.47***	.34	3.48***
Oral Expression ↔ Reading Comprehension	.66	3.08***	.35	2.31**
Oral Expression ↔ Written Expression	.66	3.30***	.60	5.28***
Reading Comp ↔ Written Expression	.48	3.45***	.48	3.08***
	χ2(22) = 25.46b, p>.05 RMSEA = .04; CFI = .97		χ2(15) = 28.37, p>.05 RMSEA = .09; CFI = .90

^*p<.05

^**p<.01

^***p<.001

^aStandardized Value

^bBased on Robust Standard Errors

^cSingle Indicator of Factor