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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Read Psychol. 2012 Feb 3;33(1-2):133–161. doi: 10.1080/02702711.2012.631863

Table 6.

Correlations of ORF Median and Mean Scores at Time Point 1 with External Measures of Reading Fluency across Time Points 2–5 and Test of the Difference the Magnitude of Median and Mean Correlations at Time Point 1 with External Measures of Reading Fluency Across Points 2–5among Struggling Readers

Correlations of ORF Median and Mean Scores at Time Point 1 with External Measures of Reading Fluency at Time Points 2–5

Time Point 2 Time Point 3 Time Point 4 Time Point 5
Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE
Median .51 .53 .51 .43 .48 .48 .45 .51
Mean .51 .53 .51 .43 .50 .48 .45 .51

Testing the Magnitude of the Difference between the ORF Mean and Median Correlations at Time Point 1 with External Measures of Reading Fluency across Points 2–5

Time Point 2 Time Point 3 Time Point 4 Time Point 5
Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE Maze TOSRE
Median vs. Mean .36 .98 .84 .67 .31 .89 .97 .85

Note. n = 727. p < 0.05. Maze = AIMS-Web Maze CBM Reading Comprehension; TOSRE = Test of Sentence Reading Efficiency.

a

validity of Median ORF Score is greater in magnitude than ORF Mean Score;

b

validity of the ORF Mean Score is greater in magnitude than ORF Median Score.