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SEED Sponsored Research: Children
starting school in Scotland
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1. Includes writing, concepts about print, letter
identification, word recognition and sentences.
2. Includes ideas about maths, counting and
numerosity, simple sums, digit identification,
shape identification and maths problems.
3. The metric "effect size" is chosen because of its
increasing use in educational research, its applicability
across studies and the potential for its use in meta
analyses. It can also be readily linked to Figures 1 and 2.
It would be possible to express differences in months and
the link is made in Table 4, but as can be seen the
variation in the relationship between age and outcome could
mislead the unwary reader.
4. A few infrequently tackled items with large
errors were omitted.
5. A few infrequently tackled items with large
errors were omitted.
6. A few infrequently tackled items with large
errors were omitted.
7. LOWESS: (Locally weight sum of squares) This is a
regression technique which constructs a line of best fit by
taking more notice of points that are near a point on the
line than those that are at some distance. The result is a
curve which is sensitive to local variations but does
smooth over local bumps. The technique is available in
SPSS.
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