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Published in final edited form as: Sociol Educ. 2012 Jan;85(1):40–60. doi: 10.1177/0038040711417009

Table 4.

Racial/Ethnic Variation in the Relationship between Prior Achievement and Taking a Commercial SAT Test Preparation Course: Logistic Regression Results

	East Asian	Other Asian	White	Black	Hispanic

	Coef. (Robust Std. Err.)	Coef. (Robust Std. Err.)	Coef. (Robust Std. Err.)	Coef. (Robust Std. Err.)	Coef. (Robust Std. Err.)
Prior achievement	.042 ^** (.015)	.047 ^* (.019)	-.012 ^†^‡ (.007)	.000^‡ (.013)	-.020^‡ (.013)
Unweighted N	560	650	6,190	1,150	1,210
Log likelihood	-174.514	-149.021	-1544.659	-505.767	-291.074
Pseudo (McFadden’s) R²	0.065	0.114	0.061	0.037	0.089

Note: Model includes controls for SES, immigrant generation, two-parent status, number of siblings, parental educational expectations, gender, region, and urbancity in addition to prior achievement.

^‡

denotes significant differences from East Asian American students under the p<.10

^***

p<.001,

^**

p<.01,

p<.05,

^†

p<.10 (two-tailed tests)