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The influence of the school learning environment 197 Table 8.19: Fit of Different Polynomials (-2LL) for Changes in Story Structure (162 cases). Model Comparison -2LL Models ΔΧ2 Δdf p         SSI: β0ijcons a       840.33     SSII: SSI + β1Age1ij SSII: SSII + e1ijAge1ij SSIV: SSIII + u10jAge1ij SSV: SSIV + β2Age2ij SSVI: SSV + e2ijAge2ij SSVII: SSVI + u20jAge2ijb SSDEF: SSI + β1Age1ij + β2Age2ij       743.78 a In addition to the intercept, variance components for differences within and between individuals are estimated. b No convergence within 250 iterations. Based on this General Development Model we constructed Figure 8.14, in which both the average development as well as the differences within and between individuals are represented (see Table 6.10 in Appendix 6 for the parameter estimates). The average SS score at an age of 73 months was estimated as 6.91. Each month a child grew older, his SS score increased by 0.21, but the quadratic function of Age decreased the score with 0.002 (since this is a small effect it is not visible in Figure 8.14). 747.19 SSI vs SSII 746.58 SSII vs SSIII 746.04 SSIII vs SSIV 740.87 SSIV vs SSV 737.26 SSV vs SSVI 93.14 1 0.61 1 0.54 2 5.15 1 3.63 3 <.001 .44ns .76ns .02 .31ns              11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Growth SS Within 80% - Within 80% + Between 80% - Between 80% +                Age in Months Figure 8.14: Graphical Representation of the General Development Model of Story Structure (162 cases) with 80% Reliability. 51 55 59 63 67 71 75 79 83 87 91 95 99 103 Story Structure Score (max.17) 


































































































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