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Third National Even Start Evaluation: Follow-Up Findings From the Experimental Design Study
NCEE 2005-3002
December 2004

Even Start Children and Parents Still Scored Low Compared to National Norms

At follow-up, Even Start children and parents scored low relative to national norms. Children scored on average at the 9th percentile on the PPVT-III, at the 25th percentile on the WJR Letter-Word Identification, at the 27th percentile on the WJR Applied Problems subscale, at the 16th percentile on the WJR Dictation subscale, at the 12th percentile on the WJR Incomplete Words subscale, at the 10th percentile on the WJR Sound Blending subscale, and at the 16th percentile on the WJR Early Development Skills scale. Adults also scored low at follow-up, relative to national norms. They scored on average at the 5th percentile on WJR Letter-Word Identification, at the 1st percentile on WJR Passage Comprehension and Reading Comprehension, at the 9th percentile for WJR Basic Reading Skills, at the 1st percentile for WJR Reading Vocabulary, and at the 16th percentile for WJR Word Attack.