Reading Ability Development From Kindergarten to Junior Secondary: Latent Transition Analyses With Growth Mixture Modeling

• In Event: 33.045 - Applications of Propensity Scoring and Latent Variable Methodologies in Large-Scale Database Analyses

Abstract

The present study examined the reading ability development of children in the large scale Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 data;. Tourangeau, Nord, Lê, Pollack, & Atkins-Burnett, 2006). By extending the measurement part of latent class analysis (LTA) to growth mixture model, the new model fitted the data well. Results showed that most of the children stayed in the same ability group with few cross-level changes in their original classes. After adding the covariates, children receiving higher teachers’ ratings, with higher socioeconomic status, and of above average poverty status, would have higher probability to transit into the higher ability level group.

Authors

• Yuan Liu, Southwest University

• Kit-Tai Hau, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Xiaofang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Zheng Xin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong