Table 2.
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve Results – Second Grade
| BESA-ME Morphosyntax | BESA-ME Semantics | TNL | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| English | Spanish | Best | English | Spanish | Best | English | Spanish | Best | |
| AUC | .86*** | .89*** | .95*** | .78*** | .81*** | .83*** | .78*** | .80*** | .85*** |
| Standard Error | .04 | .03 | .03 | .06 | .04 | .05 | .05 | .05 | .04 |
| Asymptotic 95% CI | [.77, .95] | [.82, .95] | [.89, 1.00] | [.67, .89] | [.72, .89] | [.73, .93] | [.69, .89] | [.71, .89] | [.76, .93] |
| Optimal Cut-Point | 62.5 | 64.5 | 80.0 | 93.0 | 87.0 | 100.5 | 68.5 | 89.5 | 93.0 |
| Sensitivity (True Positive) |
.84 (16/19) |
.84 (16/19) |
.90 (17/19) |
.74 (14/19) |
.79 (15/19) |
.79 (15/19) |
.68 (13/19) |
.74 (14/19) |
.84 (16/19) |
| (False Negative) | (3/19) | (3/19) | (2/19) | (5/19) | (4/19) | (4/19) | (6/19) | (7/19) | (3/19) |
| Specificity (True Negative) |
.80 (74/92) |
.87 (80/92) |
.89 (82/92) |
.73 (66/91) |
.70 (64/91) |
.71 (65/91) |
.81 (72/89) |
.72 (64/89) |
.73 (65/89) |
| (False Positive) | (18/92) | (12/92) | (10/92) | (25/91) | (27/91) | (26/91) | (17/89) | (25/89) | (24/89) |
| Positive Likelihood Ratio | 4.20 | 6.46 | 8.18 | 2.74 | 2.63 | 2.72 | 3.58 | 2.64 | 3.11 |
| Negative Likelihood Ratio | .20 | .18 | .11 | .36 | .30 | .30 | .40 | .36 | .22 |
Note. AUC = Area Under the Curve; CI = Confidence Interval; BESA-ME = Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment – Middle Extension; TNL = Test of Narrative Language.
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p < 0.001.