Table 1.
Demographics and Pre-Training Non-verbal IQ, Word Reading, and Listening Comprehension Performance by Study Groups
| Rehearsal (n
= 19) |
No-strategy-instruction
(n = 19) |
Control (n =
20) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD |
| Age (years) | 7.19 | .41 | 7.09 | .36 | 7.13 | .33 | |||
| Gender (female) | 9 (47.3%) | 7 (36.8%) | 10 (50%) | ||||||
| Race | |||||||||
| African American | 9 (47.3%) | 13 (68.4%) | 5 (25%) | ||||||
| Caucasian | 6 (31.6%) | 2 (10.5%) | 10 (50%) | ||||||
| Hispanic | 2 (10.5%) | 3 (15.7%) | 3 (15%) | ||||||
| Other | 2 (10.5%) | 1 (5.2%) | 2 (10%) | ||||||
| Free/Reduced Lunch | 16 (84.2%) | 16 (84.2%) | 14 (70%) | ||||||
| Non-Verbal IQ | 12.47 | 6.86 | 9.16 | 4.49 | 10.55 | 4.86 | |||
| Word Identification | 37.95 | 11.94 | 34.68 | 10.07 | 38.05 | 9.59 | |||
| Listening Comprehension | 17.16 | 5.39 | 14.95 | 4.62 | 18.50 | 3.55 | |||
Note. Non-verbal IQ is WASI Matrix Reasoning (Wechsler, 1999); Word Identification is the Word Identification Subtest of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised (Woodcock et al., 2001); Listening Comprehension is the Woodcock–Johnson Oral Comprehension subtest (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001). There were no significant group differences on those variables.