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School subjects intercorrelate lowly except reading comprehension with reading rate (0.85)

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q3 i3 Mean intercorrelations among reading, arithmetic, spelling and writing are low, with reading comprehension and reading rate correlating 0.85. → Arthur I. Gates 1923

Evidence

Arthur I. Gates 1923

Arthur I. Gates. (1923). The Correlations of Achievement in School Subjects with Intelligence Tests and Other Variables (Concluded). The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0066477

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Mean intercorrelations of school subjects across grades IV to VIII (Table VIII). The printed effect size is r = 0.85: "Reading Comprehension with Reading Rate, which is 0.85" as the sole high coefficient; writing shows no significant association.

"The inter-correlations of school subjects are not high with the exception of Reading Comprehension with Reading Rate, which is 0.85."

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title School subjects intercorrelate lowly except reading comprehension with reading rate (0.85)
description School subjects intercorrelate lowly except reading comprehension with reading rate (0.85)
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1923
source_checked 2026-10-24
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