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. 2020 Jul 21;11:1789. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01789

TABLE 9.

Regression models for qualitative outcome measures where French children outperformed English children.

Outcome: proportion of orthographic errors in the 12 dictated words
Model step 1
Model step 2
R2 B SE χ2 df p R2 B SE χ2 df p


Constant 5.51 0.72 7.62 1 < 0.001*** 5.43 0.77 7.06 1 < 0.001***
Age –0.31 0.08 –3.78 1 < 0.001*** –0.31 0.08 –3.67 1 < 0.001***
NVP –0.07 0.03 –2.40 1 0.017* –0.07 0.03 –2.45 1 0.014*
PA –0.05 0.02 –2.65 1 0.008** –0.05 0.02 –2.43 1 0.015*
Lang (EN) 0.07 0.20 0.35 1 0.72
Model 0.362 30.19 5 0.361 30.25 6
R2 change –0.07 0.13 0.72

Outcome: proportion of semantic errors in the 12 dictated words

Model step 1
Model step 2
Constant –1.11 0.58 –1.92 1 0.055 –2.06 0.60 –3.44 1 < 0.001***
Age –0.09 0.07 –1.34 1 0.18 –0.05 0.07 –0.82 1 0.41
NVP 0.01 0.03 0.24 1 0.81 0.005 0.02 0.21 1 0.84
PA –0.07 0.02 –4.14 1 < 0.001*** –0.06 0.02 –3.66 1 < 0.001***
Lang (EN) 0.76 0.18 4.18 1 < 0.001***
Model 0.212 225.4 5 0.370 234.2 6
R2 change 0.158 17.51 1 < 0.001***