Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Child Dev. 2014 Nov-Dec;23(6):575–587. doi: 10.1002/icd.1849

Table 1.

Mean and SD for measures of language and memory skills across age groups

Measures Age 3
Age 4
Age 5
Age 6
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
MST LSS 4.10 1.59 5.00 1.83 6.20 1.93 6.80 2.35
PPVT R 84.10 14.48 101.80 15.09 114.90 13.72 132.40 20.03
PPVT S 124.50 12.86 122.40 12.38 120.00 10.50 123.10 13.85
NEPSY MD R 42.10 11.90 70.40 20.55 80.60 26.98 89.50 22.67
NEPSY MD S 10.70 2.41 13.60 3.95 13.50 4.79 12.30 2.71
NEPSY NM R 5.30 4.55 6.00 2.94 14.10 7.75 19.10 7.06
NEPSY NM S 9.70 3.43 7.20 1.99 8.90 3.25 9.50 2.95

Note. MST LSS = Missing Scan Task longest set size correct scores; PPVT R = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test raw scores; PPVT S = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test standard scores; NEPSY MD R = NEPSY memory for designs total raw scores; NEPSY MD S = NEPSY memory for designs total scaled scores; NEPSY NM R = NEPSY narrative memory raw scores; NEPSY NM S = NEPSY narrative memory scaled scores.