Mid-year harm avoidance symptoms positively predict end-of-year oral reading fluency for boys and girls¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? T1 harm avoidance significantly predicted T2 fluency, with children reporting greater harm avoidance at mid-year tending to perform better on the fluency task. → Grills-Taquechel 2012

Evidence¶

Grills-Taquechel 2012¶

Grills-Taquechel, Amie E.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Vaughn, Sharon R.; Stuebing, Karla K. (2012). Anxiety and Reading Difficulties in Early Elementary School: Evidence for Unidirectional- or Bi-Directional Relations? Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 43(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0246-1

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Hierarchical linear regression predicting end-of-year fluency in the 153-child sample. T1 harm avoidance produced a small but significant ΔR2 of .01 beyond T1 fluency; Table 3 reports β = .11, t = 2.40. The discussion links this to a motivating role for moderate anxiety on timed tasks.

"Harm Avoidance at T1 significantly predicted T2 CMERS with a Block 2 increase in R2 from .68 to .69 (R2Δ p < .05; see Table 3)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• End-of-year decoding was not predicted by any mid-year anxiety subscale — related
• Better mid-year decoding performance positively predicts end-of-year harm avoidance symptoms — related
• Total anxiety predicts later fluency for girls only, via a significant gender-by-anxiety interaction — related
• Better mid-year oral reading fluency predicts lower separation anxiety symptoms at end of first grade — related