Standard errors for the percentage of first-time kindergartners in fall 1998 who demonstrated specific reading knowledge and skills, by grade level and selected characteristics: 1998

Children’s Skills and Proficiency in Reading and Mathematics Through Grade 3

Table S8-1a. Standard errors for the percentage of first-time kindergartners in fall 1998 who demonstrated specific reading knowledge and skills, by grade level and selected characteristics: 1998–2002

	Ending Sounds				Sight Words				Words in context
Characteristic	Spring kinder- garten	Spring 1st	Spring 3rd	Difference	Spring kinder- garten	Spring 1st	Spring 3rd	Difference	Spring kinder- garten	Spring 1st	Spring 3rd	Difference

Total	0.82	0.69	0.02	0.82	0.51	1.40	0.13	0.53	0.21	1.48	0.53	0.57
Sex
Male	0.85	0.95	0.03	0.85	0.61	1.75	0.19	0.64	0.25	1.50	0.79	0.83
Female	0.99	0.51	0.02	0.99	0.60	1.19	0.12	0.61	0.29	1.61	0.40	0.49
Difference	1.30	1.08	0.04	1.31	0.86	2.12	0.22	0.88	0.38	2.20	0.89	0.96
Race/ethnicity
Asian/Pacific Islander	3.33	0.82	0.06	3.33	2.55	2.34	0.35	2.57	1.33	4.22	0.79	1.55
Black	1.69	1.02	0.05	1.69	0.96	1.93	0.35	1.02	0.38	1.94	1.05	1.12
White	0.94	0.66	0.01	0.94	0.66	1.44	0.08	0.66	0.30	1.62	0.37	0.48
Other	3.71	3.18	0.18	3.71	1.69	5.56	1.13	2.03	1.01	4.46	3.46	3.60
Hispanic	1.76	0.90	0.03	1.76	0.85	2.03	0.22	0.88	0.34	2.34	1.21	1.26
Family risk factors
Zero	0.86	0.48	0.01	0.86	0.69	1.23	0.06	0.69	0.32	1.63	0.30	0.44
One	1.06	0.88	0.04	1.06	0.63	1.89	0.27	0.69	0.30	2.18	0.84	0.89
Two or more	1.38	1.70	0.07	1.38	0.68	2.34	0.47	0.83	0.24	1.39	1.82	1.84
Difference	1.63	1.77	0.07	1.63	0.97	2.64	0.47	1.08	0.40	2.14	1.84	1.89

† Not applicable.
SOURCE: Rathbun, A., and West, J. (2004). From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children’s Beginning School Experiences (NCES 2004–007), table A-9a and previously unpublished tabulation (November 2004). Data from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 (ECLS–K), Longitudinal Kindergarten-First Grade Public-Use Data File and Third Grade Restricted-Use Data File.

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