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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 6.

Model Characteristics for Proximal and Distal Pre-Algebra Outcomes

Parameter Proximal
Distal
Estimate (S.E.) df t/z/F 95% CI Estimate (S.E.) df t/z/F 95% CI
Unconditional Model
 Fixed: Intercept (γ000) 0.01 (0.06) 92.3 0.16 −0.10 to 0.12 −0.04 (0.06) 20.6 −0.67 −0.18 to 0.09
 Random: Teacher ( σu02) 0.17 (0.04) 3.88c 0.11 to 0.30 0.09 (0.05) 1.61 0.03 to 0.49
  School ( σv02) N/A 0.01 (0.02) 0.21 0.00 to 7.30
  Residual ( σe2) 0.29 (0.03) 9.30c 0.24 to 0.37 0.67 (0.07) 9.71c 0.55 to 0.82
 Model Fit: Dev = 511.3; Param = 2; BIC = 520.4 Dev = 673.9; Param = 3; BIC = 683.6
Full/Final Model
 Fixed: Intercept (γ000) −0.30 (0.09) 98.8 −3.40c −0.47 to −0.12 −1.10 (0.41) 239 −2.72b −1.90 to −0.30
  Word-Problem Pretest 0.24 (0.06) 247 3.99c 0.12 to 0.36 0.48 (0.10) 247 5.04c 0.29 to 0.67
  WRAT-3 Pretest N/A 0.01 (0.00) 246 2.50a 0.00 to 0.02
  Spec. Ed. (Receive) −0.31 (0.11) 247 −2.78b −0.53 to −0.09 −0.46 (0.16) 247 −2.81b −0.79 to −0.14
  Treatment (CAL) 0.02 (0.09) 80.5 0.25 −0.16 to 0.20 0.10 (0.13) 69.5 0.73 −0.17 to 0.36
  Treatment (WP) 0.83 (0.09) 86.1 8.98c 0.65 to 1.02 0.32 (0.13) 72.4 2.47a 0.06 to 0.59
  Cohort (1) 0.06 (0.10) 111 0.56 −0.14 to 0.26 −0.23 (0.16) 44.2 −1.47 −0.55 to 0.09
  Cohort (2) −0.06 (0.11) 123 −0.53 −0.27 to 0.16 0.14 (0.17) 49.6 0.85 −0.20 to 0.48
  Cohort (3) 0.08 (0.10) 126 0.79 −0.12 to 0.27 0.05 (0.16) 37.6 0.32 −0.27 to 0.37
 Random: Teacher ( σu02) 0.02 (0.02) 1.11 0.01 to 0.40 0.03 (0.04) 0.79 0.01 to 8.30
  School ( σv02) N/A 0.02 (0.02) 0.77 0.00 to 5.36
  Residual ( σe2) 0.26 (0.03) 9.61c 0.21 to 0.32 0.53 (0.06) 9.47c 0.43 to 0.66
 Model Fit: Dev = 412.6; Param = 2; BIC = 421.7 Dev = 600.8; Param = 3; BIC = 610.5

Note. See note for Table 3. The code 0 is for the treatment control group, for no free/reduced lunch, for no special education, and for Cohort 4.