Table 1.
Treatment (N=484) |
Follow-Through (N=495) |
Control (N=396) |
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F-test (p-value) | |
Average Proportion of Assessment Questions Answered Correctly | |||||||
Beginning of preK (pretest) | .0884 | .0654 | .0896 | .0768 | .0947 | .0665 | 0.3570 |
End of preK (posttest) | .2449 | .1066 | .2479 | .1053 | .2107 | .1056 | 0.0000 |
End of K (follow-up) | .4108 | .1255 | .4152 | .1311 | .3967 | .1266 | 0.1114 |
Demographic Variables | |||||||
Limited English Proficiency | 0.12 | 0.33 | 0.14 | 0.34 | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.5128 |
Free/Reduced Lunch (School Level) | 0.82 | 0.38 | 0.82 | 0.38 | 0.88 | 0.32 | 0.3731 |
Special Education | 0.17 | 0.38 | 0.17 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.8743 |
Age in Pre-K (Fall) | 4.33 | 0.35 | 4.31 | 0.35 | 4.39 | 0.35 | 0.3820 |
Ethnicity | |||||||
Black | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.48 | 0.7671 | |||
Hispanic | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.27 | 0.7618 | |||
White | 0.25 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.6213 | |||
Other | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.3069 | |||
Male | 0.50 | 0.48 | 0.50 | 0.6607 | |||
Mother’s Education | |||||||
No High School | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.8445 | |||
High School | 0.29 | 0.3 | 0.29 | 0.9945 | |||
Some College | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.31 | 0.5782 | |||
College/Higher | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.5842 |
Note. We had to drop some observations due to some students missing information on their math assessment scores, but this represented only a small proportion of our sample.