Between-term score correlations are moderate and lowest for Phonological Awareness¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Pearson correlations between fall, winter, and spring scores range from 0.34 to 0.58 for Phonological Awareness, 0.51 to 0.82 for Phonics & Word Recognition, and 0.57 to 0.74 for Language Comprehension, indicating moderate between-term correlations. → Wei He 2026 q2 i? Phonological Awareness shows smaller between-term correlations than the other two domains, which the authors attribute to rapid early development of phonological awareness in Spanish literacy acquisition. → Wei He 2026

Evidence¶

Wei He 2026¶

Wei He, NWEA Psychometrics and Analytics. (2026). Achievement and Growth Norms for Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills. NWEA. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/achievement-and-growth-norms-for-spanish-map-reading-fluency-foundational-skills-report/

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Correlational analysis of norming-sample test events after listwise deletion (students with scores in all three terms), reported in Section 3.2. The coefficients "range between 0.34 and 0.58 for Phonological Awareness," with the other domains higher; the authors attribute the lower PA correlations to rapid early changes in phonological awareness given transparent Spanish orthography.

"These coefficients range between 0.34 and 0.58 for Phonological Awareness, 0.51 and 0.82 for Phonics & Word Recognition, and 0.57 and 0.74 for Language Comprehension. These results suggest that, in general, the scores across different terms were moderately correlated."

Discussion¶

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