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National Assessment of Title I - Final Report

NCEE 2008-4012
June 2008


Exhibit 12.  Baseline Characteristics of the Analysis Sample - 3rd Grade and 5th Grade
 
  Grade Level
  Combined   3rd   5th
Student Characteristics                 
Age  9.7   8.7   10.7
Male (%)  54   52   56
Hispanic (%)  2   2   1
Race—White (%)  72   70   74
Race—African American (%)  28   30   26
Race—Other (%)  a   a   a
Family income less than $30,000 (%)  49   48   49
Family income between $30,000 and $60,000 (%)  35   34   36
Family income over $60,000 (%)  16   18   15
Eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch (%)  45   45   46
Has any learning or other disability (%)  32   34   30
Mother has bachelor's degree or higher (%)  13   13   13
                 
Reading Tests Standard Score Percentile   Standard Score Percentile   Standard Score Percentile
Screening Tests                 
TOWRE Sight Word Efficiency  84.3 15   84.4 15   84.1 15
TOWRE Phonemic Decoding Efficiency  83.0 13   85.6 17   80.6 10
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised  94.7 36   94.4 35   95.0 37
                 
Baseline Tests                 
WRM Word Identification  88.7 23   88.7 22   88.7 23
TOWRE Phonemic Decoding Efficiency  83.2 13   85.5 17   81.0 10
WRM Word Attack  92.8 32   92.4 31   93.2 33
TOWRE Sight Word Efficiency  85.3 16   86.6 19   84.2 15
AIMSWeb (Raw score)  NA NA   40.9 NA   77.0 NA
WRM Passage Comprehension  92.1 30   91.6 29   92.6 31
GRADE  88.8 23   86.1 18   91.2 28
Woodcock Johnson Spelling  89.8 25   88.5 22   90.9 27
Woodcock Johnson Calculation  94.8 36   95.4 38   94.2 35
                 
Sample Size  729   329  400
NOTE: Weights used to account for differential randomization probabilities and nonresponse.
NOTE: All standard scores have mean 100 and standard deviation 15, except for CTOPP and Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-IV, which have mean 10 and standard deviation 3. Standard scores unavailable for the Aimsweb test.
NOTE: The percentile score shown for each test is the percentile corresponding with the mean standard score.
a Values suppressed to protect student confidentiality.