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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the phonological awareness tasks

From: The dimensionality of phonological awareness among Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children: a longitudinal study

 

N

Chance

Mx. T.

Mx. O.

Mn. O.

M (SD)

Skew

Kurtosis

RhyDet_T1

212

3.33

10

10

0

4.62 (2.11)

− 0.22

− 0.01

SyllBlen_T1

212

0

10

10

0

7.72 (3.16)

− 1.41

0.75

SyllSeg_T1

212

0

10

10

0

6.74 (3.16)

− 0.76

− 0.58

PhonBlen_T1

212

0

10

10

0

0.56 (1.60)

3.39

12.05

PhonSeg_T1

212

0

10

8

0

0.26 (1.09)

4.92

25.20

PhonEli_T1

212

0

10

9

0

0.40 (1.33)

4.27

19.28

RhyDet_T2

177

3.33

10

10

0

5.44 (2.29)

− 0.32

0.15

SyllBlen_T2

177

0

10

10

0

7.84 (3.50)

− 1.53

0.70

SyllSeg_T2

177

0

10

10

0

8.15 (2.63)

− 1.70

1.99

PhonBlen_T2

177

0

10

9

0

1.53 (2.51)

1.61

1.44

PhonSeg_T2

177

0

10

10

0

0.70 (1.94)

3.07

9.36

PhonEli_T2

177

0

10

10

0

1.05 (2.28)

2.33

4.75

  1. RhyDet Rhyme detection, SyllBlen Syllable blending, SyllSeg Syllable segmentation, PhonBlen Phoneme blending, PhonSeg Phoneme segmentation, PhonEli Phoneme Elision, T1 kindergarten, T2 first grade, N number of children who performed the task, Chance possible score by chance, Mx. T. maximum score of the task, Mx. O. maximum score obtained, Mn. O. minimum score obtained, M mean, SD standard deviationan