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Growth Mixture Modeling Of Academic Achievement In Children Of Varying Birth Weight Risk, Kimberly A. Espy, Julia Hua Fang, David Charak, Nori Minich, H. Gerry Taylor
Growth Mixture Modeling Of Academic Achievement In Children Of Varying Birth Weight Risk, Kimberly A. Espy, Julia Hua Fang, David Charak, Nori Minich, H. Gerry Taylor
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: Faculty and Staff Publications
The extremes of birth weight and preterm birth are known to result in a host of adverse outcomes, yet studies to date largely have used cross-sectional designs and variable-centered methods to understand long-term sequelae. Growth mixture modeling (GMM) that utilizes an integrated person- and variable-centered approach was applied to identify latent classes of achievement from a cohort of school-age children born at varying birth weights. GMM analyses revealed 2 latent achievement classes for calculation, problem-solving, and decoding abilities. The classes differed substantively and persistently in proficiency and in growth trajectories. Birth weight was a robust predictor of class membership for …