Home literacy environment and child health predict reading readiness at school entry, and socioeconomic status stops being a significant predictor once home literacy environment is entered (suggestive of mediation, not tested)¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Home literacy environment and child health together accounted for 11% of variance in reading readiness; SES was no longer significant once proximal factors were entered, which the authors read as suggesting mediation by home literacy environment; no formal mediation test was run. → Dilnot 2017

Evidence¶

Dilnot 2017¶

Dilnot, J., Hamilton, L., Maughan, B. and Snowling, M. (2017). Child and Environmental Risk Factors Predicting Readiness for Learning in Children at High-Risk of Dyslexia. Development & Psychopathology, 29(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579416000134

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Hierarchical regression (Model B) predicting reading readiness at school entry in the longitudinal sample, entering non-significant predictors dropped. The article reports "home literacy environment and child health accounted for 11% of the variance" and family-risk a further non-significant 2.8%.

"In the model predicting reading readiness, home literacy environment and child health accounted for 11% of the variance and family3risk for a further 2.8% which was not significant."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Home Learning Environment — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Physical Well-Being — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

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