Group Literacy Scores Before and After PSM for Star and FAST
Star and FAST Beginning-of-Year The matching students successfully created similar treatment and comparison groups in each grade. The signifcance level for each pair was greater than 0.05, meaning the groups were similar. Table 5 shows the group scores before the matching and Table 6 shows the group scores after the matching.
Table 5. BOY PRE-PSM Reading Overall Scale Scores by Grade and Condition
Grade
Condition
Number of students
Reading Test Score
Treatment
694.1
34
1stGrade STAR Literacy Unifed Scale Score
Comparison
686.0
53
Treatment
33
755.3
2ndGrade STAR Reading Unifed Scale Score
Comparison
99
753.0
Treatment
60
268.8
3rdGrade FAST ELA Scale Score
Comparison
98
266.8
Treatment
23
278.0
4thGrade FAST ELA Scale Score
Comparison
37
282.2
Treatment
18
285.5
5thGrade FAST ELA Scale Score
Comparison
41
285.0
Treatment
101
273.9
3rd-5th Grade FAST ELA Scale Score
Comparison
176
274.3
Shaded boxes indicate signifcant diferences between groups.
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