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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Except Child. 2017 Jul 3;84(1):55–75. doi: 10.1177/0014402917705855

Table 3.

Multilevel Model Gains Results (Model 1)

Fixed Effects Vocabulary Outcomes Emergent Literacy Outcomes


Recept Voc Express Voc Listen Comp Phono Aware Print Know Word Read






Coeff p Coeff P Coeff p Coeff p Coeff p Coeff p
Intercept (Gain) 6.20 .001 3.99 .004 2.15 .151 8.03 .001 0.31 .851 0.91 .541

Random Effects Var p Var P Var p Var p Var p Var p

Teachers 8.04 .087 0.10 .250 0.08 .342 0.89 .293 0.01 >.500 23.62 .012
Districts 0.01 >.500 0.01 >.500 5.26 .092 4.45 .196 11.37 .007 0.04 >.500
Residual 169.53 121.24 129.41 220.30 123.83 122.45

Model Indices

No. Parameters 4 4 4 4 4 4
Deviance (-2LL) 1066 1008 1013 1032 1016 710

Note. N= 1 33 students (47 Interactive Book Reading (IBR), 42 Phonological Awareness (PA), and 44 Business-as-Usual(BAU)), 57 teachers, and 8 districts. Cohort 1 missing word reading outcome; thus word reading, ns = 27, 43, and 21, for IBR, PA, and BAU, respectively. Recept Voc= receptive vocabulary as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test IV; Express Voc= expressive vocabulary as measured by the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test IV; Listen Comp = listening comprehension as measured by the Woodcock Johnson III Listening Comprehension cluster; Phono Aware = phonological awareness as measured by the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing Phonological Awareness subtest; Print Know = print knowledge as measured by the Test of Preschool Early Literacy Print Knowledge subtest; Word Read = word reading as measured by the Woodcock Johnson III Letter-Word Identification subtest. All tests are in standard scores. Observed p-values reported; significant adjusted p-values (p < 0.017) are in boldface.