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Record W4414493500 · doi:10.1080/10888438.2025.2561985

Charting the Shift: Age as a Moderator of the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Reading

2025· article· en· W4414493500 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Studies of Reading · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicReading and Literacy Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCanada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada
KeywordsModerationReading (process)Reading comprehensionChild developmentStatistical analysis

Abstract

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Reading is influenced by genes and environments throughout life. Using a U.S. twin sample (N = 1086; 564 Male: 522 Female; Age M = 7.46 years, SD = 1.57, with 90% self-reported as White, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Alaskan, Native American, or Native Pacific Islander, and 11% self-reported as Hispanic), we used a Gene-by-Environment model with age as a moderator to examine how the balance of genetic and environmental influences on reading differed by age. Reading was measured with the DIBELS Next Composite from the beginning of academic year 2018/19. We observed small increasing genetic influences and larger decreasing shared environmental influences on reading from ages 5 to 7 that began to plateau around age 8. Non-shared environmental influences on reading were low and relatively stable from ages 6 through 12 following an uptick between ages 5 and 6. Our results are consistent with the bioecological framework, the emerging gene-environment-time model, and theories of reading development.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.458
Threshold uncertainty score0.508

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it