Table 2.
Correlations with age and partial correlations (age removed) between English standardized tests and English language sample measures by age group.
| Standardized test (raw score) | Language sample measure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age |
MLUW |
NDW |
WPM |
Gram |
NSS |
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| Younger | Older | Younger | Older | Younger | Older | Younger | Older | Younger | Older | Younger | Older | |
| Age | — | — | .59** | .17 | .46* | .11 | .34 | .41 | .60** | .09 | .70** | −.05 |
| CFD | .60** | −.01 | .53** | .17 | .35 | −.05 | .53** | −.16 | .54** | .15 | .19 | .13 |
| RS | .72** | .47* | .43* | .14 | .28 | .25 | .38 | .37 | .46* | .08 | .26 | .36 |
| FS | .65** | .16 | .20 | .14 | −.13 | .08 | .10 | .14 | .51** | .10 | −.14 | .19 |
| EOW | .54** | .58** | .27 | .11 | .51** | .34 | .37 | .08 | .48* | .30 | .55** | .28 |
| ROW | .74** | .26 | −.08 | .45* | .23 | .11 | −.08 | .13 | .25 | .25 | .25 | .29 |
Note. The top row and first two columns display bivariate correlations between chronological age and all English dependent measures. Remaining rows display partial correlations between English language sample measures and raw scores from English standardized tests. Abbreviations are as in Table 1.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.