SEED Sponsored Research: Children starting school in Scotland
Footnotes
1. Includes writing, concepts about print, letter identification, word recognition and sentences.
2. Includes ideas about maths, counting and numerosity, simple sums, digit identification,
shape identification and maths problems.
3. The metric "effect size" is chosen because of its increasing use in educational research, its applicability across studies and the potential for its use in meta analyses. It can also be readily linked to Figures 1 and 2. It would be possible to express differences in months and the link is made in Table 4, but as can be seen the variation in the relationship between age and outcome could mislead the unwary reader.
4. A few infrequently tackled items with large errors were omitted.
5. A few infrequently tackled items with large errors were omitted.
6. A few infrequently tackled items with large errors were omitted.
7. LOWESS: (Locally weight sum of squares) This is a regression technique which constructs a line of best fit by taking more notice of points that are near a point on the line than those that are at some distance. The result is a curve which is sensitive to local variations but does smooth over local bumps. The technique is available in SPSS.