Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of the sample.
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Between session comparison | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Range | Mean | Range | Mean | Range | F(2,30) | p | |
| Age (years) | 8.75 | 8–9.7 | 9.88 | 9.1–11 | 10.68 | 9.9–11.6 | – | – |
| Reading fluency (raw)b | 113.72 | 74–178 | 129.29 | 96–181 | 137.53 | 99–201 | 20.68a | 0.001 |
| Reading fluency (t)c | 52.27 | 30–80 | 53.17 | 32–80 | 53.12 | 30–80 | 0.12 | 0.890 |
| Letter-speech sound identification fluency (raw) | 42.72 | 39–45 | 42.29 | 38–45 | 42.58 | 39–45 | 0.36 | 0.702 |
| Letter-speech sound identification fluency (t) | 54.78 | 48–73 | 58.06 | 39–68 | 56.70 | 40–72 | 0.79 | 0.460 |
| Phoneme deletion fluency (raw) | 17.05 | 2–23 | 17.59 | 9–23 | 19.41 | 10–23 | 3.07 | 0.061 |
| Phoneme deletion fluency (t) | 51.72 | 0–70 | 58.59 | 37–80 | 57.29 | 29–71 | 2.89 | 0.071 |
| WISC Verbal (Similarities)d | 15.22 | 12–18 | – | – | 15.06 | 10–19 | – | – |
| WISC Non-verbal (block design)d | 12.78 | 9–19 | – | – | 11.88 | 6–17 | – | – |
aGreenhouse-Geisser corrected F(1,21).
bRaw scores, number of correct items across three sub-groups (high-frequency, low-frequency and pseudo words) per 90 s, number of correct responses out of 90 items (letter-speech sound identification) or 28 items (phoneme deletion).
ct-Scores, age-appropriate norm scores mean 50, SD = 10.
dAge-appropriate norm scores mean 10, SD = 3.