Table 6.

Change in DVAR from fall to spring (Delta DVAR) Predicting Reading Comprehension (RC)

Fixed effect	Coefficient	SE	t-ratio	df	p
Spring reading comprehension (mean W)	479.28	1.79	267.35	27	<0.001
Effect of SCHFARL	−0.09	0.04	−2.40	27	0.024
Fall Vocabulary (W)	0.15	0.10	1.60	66	0.113
Fall RC (W Scores)	0.60	0.08	7.55	66	<0.001
Fall Language (DS)	0.005	0.01	−0.35	66	0.726
Fall Non-word reading (DS)	0.01	0.01	1.39	66	0.170
Delta DVAR	−0.23	0.10	−2.29	66	0.025
SCHFARL X Delta DVAR effect	−0.003	0.003	−1.04	66	0.301
STFARL	0.46	2.30	0.20	66	0.841
Final estimation of variance components
Random effects	SD	Variance	df	χ2	p
Intercept, r0	0.31	0.09	27	15.38	>0.500
Level 1, e	8.45	71.32

Note. Deviance = 747.12, School-wide % Free And Reduced Lunch (SCHFARL) and all continuous variables are grand mean centered, Student FARL (STFARL, 0 = did not receive, 1 = received) is not centered. Vocabulary = Woodcock Johnson III (WJ3) Picture Vocabulary W score, RC = WJ3 Passage Comprehension W score. DS = Developmental Scale Score from the DELV-S, Delta DVAR = empirical Bayes residuals.