Saturday, August 8, 2015

SKrashen: CAN ACCESS BALANCE THE EFFECT OF POVERTY?

SKrashen: August 2015:




Webinar Presentation 4

CAN ACCESS BALANCE THE EFFECT OF POVERTY?
Predictors of NAEP grade 4, 2007, 51 states
predictors
beta
t
P
Poverty
-0.72
7.42
0
Access
0.53
1.62
0.055
r2 = .63
Access = bks/student in school libraries, circulation in public libraries

Predictors of PIRLS:
Predictors of the reading test: PIRLS 2006
predictor
P
poverty
-0.41
0.005
independent reading in school
0.16
0.14
library: 500 books
0.35
0.005
Instruction
-0.19
0.085
r2 = .63 
Krashen, S., Lee, S.Y. and McQuillan, J. 2012. Is the library important? Multivariate studies at the national and international level. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 8(1): 26-36.

Replication:  PIRLS 2011
Predictor
 beta
p
SES
0.52
0.01
library: 5000 bks
0.20
0.08
class libr
0.08
0.28
parent read
0.065
0.31
early lit
-0.26
0.04
Instruction
-0.016
0.5
r2 = .62

Note: Parental reading and classroom library correlated with PIRLS reading scores, but the effect disappeared in the multiple regression.
Note: Poverty and access are the main predictors of reading achievement in all studies.


 SKrashen: August 2015: