Table 4.
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve Results – Fourth Grade
| BESA-ME Morphosyntax | BESA-ME Semantics | TNL | |||||||
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| English | Spanish | Best | English | Spanish | Best | English | Spanish | Best | |
| AUC | .82** | .76* | .85** | .73* | .80* | .74* | .81** | .73* | .80** |
| Standard Error | .06 | .09 | .06 | .13 | .06 | .13 | .09 | .09 | .09 |
| Asymptotic 95% CI | [.70, .94] | [.59, .93] | [.73, .97] | [.48, .98] | [.68, .92] | [.49, .99] | [.64, .98] | [.55, .91] | [.62, .99] |
| Optimal Cut-Point | 90.0 | 65.5 | 89.5 | 108.5 | 82.0 | 108.5 | 80.5 | 90.0 | 90.0 |
| Sensitivity (True Positive) |
.86 (6/7) |
.86 (6/7) |
.71 (5/7) |
.71 (5/7) |
.86 (6/7) |
.71 (5/7) |
.86 (6/7) |
.71 (5/7) |
.71 (5/7) |
| (False Negative) | (1/7) | (1/6) | (2/7) | (2/7) | (1/7) | (2/7) | (1/7) | (2/7) | (2/7) |
| Specificity (True Negative) |
.74 (42/57) |
.75 (43/57) |
.77 (44/57) |
.67 (38/57) |
.72 (41/57) |
.68 (39/57) |
.59 (33/56) |
.75 (42/56) |
.84 (47/56) |
| (False Positive) | (15/57) | (14/57) | (13/57) | (19/57) | (16/57) | (18/57) | (23/56) | (14/56) | (9/56) |
| Positive Likelihood Ratio | 3.31 | 3.44 | 3.09 | 2.15 | 3.07 | 2.22 | 2.1 | 2.84 | 4.44 |
| Negative Likelihood Ratio | .19 | .19 | .38 | .43 | .19 | .43 | .24 | .39 | .35 |
Note. AUC = Area Under the Curve; BESA-ME = Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment – Middle Extension; TNL = Test of Narrative Language.
*
p < .05
**
p < .01.