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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Learn Individ Differ. 2008;18(3):308–315. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.04.005

Table 2.

Estimates of growth and overall level of performance on ORF

Linear growth Quadratic growth


Model Model


Estimate Reliability Estimate Reliability
Fixed effects
  Intercept 47.7 0.97 49.8   0.97
  Slope 6.1 0.81 9.3   0.57
  Quadratic 0.54 0.25
Random effects
  Intercept 993.8 1018.9  
  Slope 11.1 29.26
  Quadratic 0.19
  Residual 50.8 35.5  

Note: Estimates for random effects are variances; all fixed and random estimates are significant at p<.0001.