Country SES moderates the linguistic-skill-to-reading paths, with stronger phonological-awareness and vocabulary associations in developed countries, but does not moderate the direct SES-reading paths¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · quant-synthesis r2–r3 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The path from phonological awareness to reading accuracy was stronger in developed than developing countries (β = 0.15, p < 0.001); the pooled studies are correlational, so this is a difference in association, not shown to be a causal impact. → Li 2023 q3 i? The path from vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension was stronger in developed than developing countries (β = 0.11, p = 0.001), and country SES did not moderate SES-reading or SES-language paths. → Li 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Li 2023¶

Li, J., Peng, P., Ma, X., Ding, N., & Zhao, J. (2023). How does family socioeconomic status influence children's reading ability? Evidence from meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Educational Psychology Review, 35(4), 119. doi:10.1007/s10648-023-09834-1 (read from the PsyArXiv preprint, doi:10.31234/osf.io/7yv6r)

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

OSMASEM on the reading accuracy model (omnibus χ2(5) = 40.92, p < 0.001), with country SES coded developed (1) versus developing (0); the country moderation of the PA-accuracy path (β = 0.15, p < 0.001) explained 19.38% of between-study heterogeneity. The pooled correlations come from nonexperimental studies, so the stronger path is an association, not an established causal effect.

"phonological awareness had more impact on reading accuracy in developed countries compared to developing countries (β = 0.15, p < 0.001). About 19.38% variance of the between-study heterogeneity was explained on the effects of PA on reading accuracy"

Li 2023 (2)¶

Li, J., Peng, P., Ma, X., Ding, N., & Zhao, J. (2023). How does family socioeconomic status influence children's reading ability? Evidence from meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Educational Psychology Review, 35(4), 119. doi:10.1007/s10648-023-09834-1 (read from the PsyArXiv preprint, doi:10.31234/osf.io/7yv6r)

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r3

In the OSMASEM country-SES analyses, besides the PA-to-accuracy path (β = 0.15, p < 0.001), the VK-to-comprehension path was also moderated (β = 0.11, p = 0.001, 19.05% of heterogeneity), but no SES-related path was moderated; the fluency model's omnibus test was not significant (χ2(5) = 1.45, p = 0.919).

"Country SES did not significantly moderate the relations between SES and language and reading abilities and any of the remaining paths in reading accuracy and reading comprehension model"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Phonological Awareness — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

• Age moderates the vocabulary-to-reading paths (effects increase with age) but not the fluency model or any SES paths — related
• Composite SES indices predict phonological awareness more strongly than single SES indicators — related
• SES longitudinally predicts later reading (r = 0.24), and phonological awareness and vocabulary jointly explain about 45% of that association — related
• SES moderates relationships between other variables and student learning — related