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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Assess Eff Interv. 2011 Jul 13;37(3):131–146. doi: 10.1177/1534508411413913

Table 1.

Mean (SD) Age and Demographics (%) by Reader/Intervention and Passage Protocol Group

Demographic Typical
Struggling
Intervention
No Intervention
Familiar Novel Familiar Novel Familiar Novel
n 279 309 162 122 234 237
Age 12.2 (0.9) 12.2 (0.9) 12.5 (0.9) 12.5 (1.0) 12.3 (1.0) 12.3 (1.0)
Gender (female) 55 59 49 46 50 46
Reduced-price or free luncha 67 77 89 87 91 86
African American 35 41 39 33 39 45
Hispanic 29 28 43 48 46 40
White 30 27 14 16 14 11
Asian 6 5 2 2 2 4
Grade 6 36 39 33 36 40 49
Grade 7 25 22 23 23 23 19
Grade 8 39 39 44 41 37 32
a

Reduced-price or free lunch status data were missing for some students (Missing Typical Familiar = 6 Novel = 1; Struggling–No Intervention Familiar = 4 Novel = 1; Struggling–Intervention Familiar = 9 Novel = 7).