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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Elem Sch J. 2011 Jun 1;111(4):585–607. doi: 10.1086/659032

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for Total Sample and by Reader Group

Total Sample Not-At-Risk Readers At-Risk Readers



Mean SD N Mean SD N Mean SD N
Predictor measures:
    CTOPP Elision 10.77 2.69 243 11.12 2.60 198 9.20 2.53 45
    CTOPP Rapid Digits–Time 25.89 6.98 243 24.48 5.67 198 32.09 8.68 45
    CTOPP Rapid Letters–Time 29.56 8.98 243 27.59 6.71 198 38.20 12.19 45
    Graphophonemic Fluency 18.87 14.59 243 21.82 14.50 198 5.90 4.25 45
    Graphophonemic Fluency growth 12.11 9.59 243 13.06 9.99 198 7.96 6.08 45
    Letter-Sound Fluency 50.46 16.02 243 52.71 15.88 198 40.57 12.62 45
    Letter-Sound Fluency growth 15.11 16.73 243 15.80 17.53 198 12.04 12.29 45
    Phonemic Segmentation Fluency 33.78 13.60 243 34.45 13.06 198 30.80 15.56 45
    Phonemic Segmentation Fluency growth 11.03 13.36 243 10.68 12.73 198 12.57 15.91 45
    Spelling (CLS) 22.54 10.70 243 24.74 10.35 198 12.84 5.66 45
    Spelling (CLS) growth 9.74 7.66 243 10.28 8.04 198 7.36 5.12 45
    SSRS Academic Competence 95.71 10.85 243 98.24 9.91 198 84.60 7.30 45
    SSRS Problem Behaviors 93.49 10.99 243 92.25 10.01 198 98.96 13.35 45
    SSRS Social Skills 110.13 13.67 243 111.77 13.32 198 102.93 12.93 45
    Teacher Reading Rating (overall rating) 3.25 .96 243 3.48 .84 198 2.24 .80 45
    Teacher Reading Rating (total problems) .62 1.39 243 .27 .91 198 2.18 1.95 45
    TOWRE Sight Word Efficiency 106.86 12.58 243 109.87 11.35 198 93.58 8.49 45
    TOWRE Phonemic Decoding Efficiency 107.27 10.66 243 109.06 10.29 198 99.38 8.58 45
    WJ-R Oral Vocabulary–Synonyms and Antonyms 11.93 3.69 243 12.46 3.46 198 9.60 3.80 45
    Word ID Fluency 24.77 23.78 243 28.94 24.47 198 6.46 2.97 45
    Word ID Fluency growth 11.18 11.69 243 12.45 12.51 198 5.59 3.37 45
    WRMT Word Attack 108.00 13.12 243 111.00 10.98 198 94.80 13.70 45
    WRMT Word ID 110.94 10.27 243 113.67 8.50 198 98.93 8.68 45
Criterion measures:
    CRAB Comprehension 4.09 2.30 243 4.77 1.96 198 1.09 .80 45
    CRAB Fluency 68.37 36.65 243 78.93 32.05 198 21.91 8.82 45
    Graphophonemic Fluency 35.64 17.46 243 40.34 15.64 198 14.99 6.85 45
    Passage Reading Fluency 65.66 38.44 243 76.06 34.93 198 19.92 6.16 45
    Spelling (CLS) 36.61 12.23 243 39.64 11.02 198 23.27 7.44 45
    Word ID Fluency 48.33 27.54 243 55.63 25.22 198 16.22 5.55 45
    WRMT Word Attack 110.60 11.83 243 113.78 9.68 198 96.64 10.32 45
    WRMT Word ID 110.84 8.94 243 113.54 7.06 198 98.98 6.32 45

Note.—CTOPP = Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing; CLS = Correct Letter Sequences; SSRS = The Social Skills Rating System; TOWRE = Test of Word Reading Efficiency; WJ-R = Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery—Revised; WRMT = Woodcock Reading Mastery Test; CRAB = Comprehensive Reading Assessment Battery.