Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of children in the study.
Figure 1.
Literacy composite scores as a function of children’s number of potential familial risk factors.
Risk factors were operationally defined here as: school SES, mother’s level of education, parents’ PA, parents’ PSE and family history of reading difficulty. Error bars denote standard deviations. *signifiactly different (p<.05) to those with 3 or 4 family factors. NB: No child was found to have all 5 familial risk factors.
Table 2.
a. Mean performance (SD) on the pre-literacy tasks for the low-risk (N = 69) group as a function of time; b. Mean performance (SD) on the pre-literacy tasks for the high-risk group (N = 33) as a function of time.
Table 3.
Mean performance (SD) on the early literacy tasks as a function of risk group and time.
Table 4.
Family risk factors and child risk factors at T1, T2 and T3 that were significant (stepwise regressions for each factor set) in predicting early Year 1 literacy outcomes.
Table 5.
a. Hierarchical regression predicting early literacy outcomes from family and child risk factors at T1; b. Hierarchical regression predicting early literacy outcomes from family and child risk factors at T2; c. Hierarchical regression predicting early literacy outcomes from family and child risk factors at T3.
Table 6.
Classification accuracy using within-child and family risk factors.