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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2019 Jul 1;2019(166):43–77. doi: 10.1002/cad.20305

Table 3.4.

Final Growth Curve Model Parameter Estimates for Mean Length of Utterances in Words (MLUw), Number of Different Words (NDW), and Words per Minute (WPM) in Spanish

Parameter UG-MLUw CG-MLUw UG-NDW CG-NDW UG-WPM CG-WPM
Fixed Effects: γ (SE)
 Intercept [γ00] 7b (0.03) 7.2b (0.03) 91.3b (0.6) 96.1b (0.6) 81.1b (0.6) 84.8b (0.6)
 Linear slope [γ10] 0.25b (0.007) 0.25b (0.007) 3.2b (0.1) 3.3b (0.1) 3.2b (0.2) 3.3b (0.2)
 Quadratic slope [γ20] 0.02b (0.0006) 0.02b (0.0006) 0.24b (0.01) 0.24b (0.01) 0.2b (0.01) 0.2b (0.01)
 Cubic slope [γ30] 0.0003b (0.00001) 0.0003b (0.00001) 0.006b (0.0003) 0.006b (0.0003) 0.004b (0.0003) 0.004b (0.0003)
 20% BRS@Grade 2 [γ01] −0.42b (0.06) −12.7a (1.3) −10.6b (1.5)
 English instruction (Ei) [γ02] −0.33b (0.05) −7.5b (1.1) −5.5b (1)
 20% BRS × linear slope [γ11] −0.21a (0.07)
 Ei × linear slope [γ12] −0.01b (0.002) −0.19b (0.05)
Variance Components: σ (SE)
 Within-person variance [σε2] 0.61b (0.01) 0.6b (0.01) 221.4b (5) 220.1b (4.9) 254.8b (5.7) 254.2b (5.7)
 B/w-person intercept [σε2] 0.31b (0.02) 0.27b (0.02) 192.9b (10.7) 153.6b (8.8) 184.8b (10.7) 161.9b (9.6)
Proportional Variance Reduction
 Within-person variance [Rε2] 47% 48% 38% 39% 26% 26%
 B/w-person intercept R02 13% 20% 12%
Goodness-of-Fit
 −2LL 13,661.2b 13,511.6b 45,096.3b 44,867b 45,670.9b 45,568.9b
 BIC 13,712.6 13,588.7 45,147.7 44,944.1 45,722.3 45,586.1

Note. The proportional variance reduction of within-person variance [Rε2] for the best fitting unconditional and conditional growth curve models was calculated based on the within-person variance of the unconditional means model (not shown) for each measure. UG = best fitting unconditional growth curve model; CG = best fitting conditional growth curve model; 20% BRS@Grade 2 = W-score performance at or below the 20th percentile at the end (spring semester) of Grade 2 in the broad reading cluster in Spanish (BRS) of the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised, W-score (Woodcock & Muñoz-Sandoval, 1995); −2LL = −2 log-likelihood deviance statistic; BIC = Schwarz’ Bayesian information criterion.

a

p < .01.

b

p < .001.