“Getting Ready for School:” A Preliminary Evaluation of a Parent-Focused School-Readiness Program
Table 4
Language and math performance by group, before and after the intervention perioda.
Subtest
Time
Intervention
Comparison
Mean
Standard Deviation
Mean
Standard Deviation
Letter-word identification
Pre
26
3.8
2.9
30
3.8
3.2
Post
25
6.4
3.7
24
5.6
4.0
Understanding directions
Pre
26
7.4
3.8
30
6.6
2.9
Post
25
11.0
5.9
24
10.2
4.4
Spelling
Pre
25
4.2
2.4
30
3.4
2.2
Post
25
7.2
3.0
24
5.6
2.1
Applied problems
Pre
26
6.8
3.2
30
6.5
3.3
Post
25
10.5
3.9
24
8.3
4.0
Picture vocabulary
Pre
26
13.5
4.4
29
12.1
3.6
Post
25
15.8
3.2
24
13.7
3.7
Quantitative concepts
Pre
26
5.1
2.6
29
4.2
2.1
Post
25
6.9
2.2
24
6.2
2.0
aMeans and standard deviations of raw scores for each task for the intervention and comparison groups. There were no significant differences between groups in any of the pretest scores (all ’s > 0.1).
