Table 1
Demographic profile of candidates
|
Demographic factors |
Total | |
|---|---|---|
|
Gender |
Female |
171 |
|
Male |
174 | |
|
Ethnicity |
White |
201 |
|
Asian |
95 | |
|
Other |
39 | |
|
Missinga |
10 | |
|
Disability |
No known disability |
309 |
|
Specific learning difficulty |
17 | |
|
Other disability |
19 | |
|
Total sitting the assessment |
345 | |
aExcluded from subsequent analyses of Ethnicity
Fig. 1
Data compilation process
Table 2
Pearson correlation coefficients between measures of language complexity and item scores, by demographic factor levels. No correlations were statistically significant at p = 0.05
|
Measures | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Factors |
FRE |
Grade |
Word count |
Sentence count |
WpS | |
|
Gender |
Female |
0.038 |
−0.029 |
0.069 |
−0.039 |
−0.018 |
|
Male |
0.074 |
−0.051 |
0.110 |
−0.026 |
0.005 | |
|
Ethnicity |
White |
0.057 |
−0.037 |
0.080 |
−0.047 |
0.003 |
|
Asian |
0.062 |
−0.055 |
0.116 |
0.005 |
−0.021 | |
|
Other |
0.047 |
−0.036 |
0.082 |
−0.032 |
−0.028 | |
|
Disability |
No known disability |
0.060 |
−0.043 |
0.088 |
−0.033 |
−0.008 |
|
Specific learning difficulty |
0.055 |
−0.056 |
0.106 |
−0.012 |
−0.036 | |
|
Other disability |
0.008 |
0.005 |
0.085 |
−0.039 |
0.049 | |
|
Overall |
0.056 |
−0.043 |
0.094 |
−0.027 |
−0.015 | |
FRE Flesch Reading Ease, WpS words per sentence
Fig. 2
Scatterplot of word count by average item score. Points coloured by gender for illustration. Items were scored −0.25 for incorrect, 0 for don’t know, and 1 for correct
