Table 6.
Sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of tools.
| Test tool and cut scores | All participants |
AAE |
SWE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Se | Sp | Se | Sp | Se | Sp | ||
| Recommended clinical cut scores | |||||||
| TROLL | 65 total score | .09 | .98 | .07 | 1.00 | .13 | .97 |
| CCC-2 | 85 composite score | .33 | .96 | .36 | 1.00 | .27 | .94 |
| DELV-ST-II | 9 error score | .56 | .75 | .57 | .79 | .53 | .72 |
| DIBELS | 11 total score | .21 | .96 | .18 | .95 | .27 | .94 |
| Empirically derived cut scores | |||||||
| TROLL | 89 total score | .77 | .75 | .75 | .68 | .80 | .78 |
| CCC-2 | 100 composite score | .65 | .69 | .61 | .63 | .73 | .72 |
| DELV-ST-II | 8 error score | .65 | .62 | .64 | .74 | .67 | .56 |
| DIBELS | 38 total score | .63 | .62 | .57 | .58 | .73 | .64 |
Note. AAE = African American English; CCC-2 = Children's Communicative Checklist–Second Edition; DELV-ST-II = Part II of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation–Screening Test; DIBELS = Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills–Next; SWE = Southern White English; TROLL = Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy.