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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Except Child. 2015 Jan 20;81(4):443–470. doi: 10.1177/0014402914563702

Table 4.

Model Characteristics for Distal Calculation Outcome

Parameter Distal (Standardized) Calculation
Parameter Estimate (S.E.) df t/z/F 95% CI
Unconditional Model
 Fixed: Intercept (γ000) −0.00 (0.07) 21.9 −0.01 −0.14 to 0.15
 Random: Teacher ( σu02) 0.14 (0.06) 2.38b 0.07 to 0.38
  School ( σv02) 0.02 (0.03) 0.71 0.00 to 24.13
  Residual ( σe2) 0.53 (0.06) 9.55c 0.43 to 0.65
Full/Final Model
 Model Fit: Dev = 636.2; Param = 3; BIC = 645.9
 Fixed: Intercept (γ000) 0.57 (0.92) 244 0.63 −1.23 to 2.38
  Pretest 0.03 (0.00) 245 8.66c 0.02 to 0.04
  Age −0.44 (0.10) 243 −4.47c −0.63 to −0.25
  Spec. Ed. (Receive) −0.31 (0.11) 244 −2.67b −0.54 to −0.08
  Treatment (CAL) 0.73 (0.09) 67.8 8.07c 0.55 to 0.91
  Treatment (WP) 0.26 (0.09) 74.9 2.90b 0.08 to 0.44
  Cohort (1) −0.11 (0.13) 36.2 −0.89 −0.37 to 0.15
  Cohort (2) −0.04 (0.14) 45.2 −0.27 −0.31 to 0.24
  Cohort (3) 0.01 (0.13) 33.8 0.06 −0.26 to 0.28
 Random: Teacher ( σu02) 0.00 (0.02) 0.31 0.00 to −0.00
  School ( σv02) 0.03 (0.02) 1.64 0.01 to 0.15
  Residual ( σe2) 0.27 (0.03) 9.70c 0.22 to 0.33
  Model Fit: Dev = 436.0; Param = 3; BIC = 445.6

Note. See note for Table 3. The pretest was WRAT Arithmetic. The code 0 is for the treatment control group, for no special education, and for Cohort 4.