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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Teach Coll Rec (1970). 2014;116(3):http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=17352.

Table 4.

Comparison of Effective and Less Effective Teachers for Study 1

Variable Effective Teachers (N =80)
Less Effective Teachers (N = 41)
Cohen’s d
M SD M SD
Grit Rating 4.16 1.43 3.54 1.50 0.42*
Leadership Rating 3.68 0.95 3.53 1.00 0.15
College GPA 3.57 0.27 3.53 0.26 0.15
SAT score 1344.84 131.04 1365.88 166.01 −0.14
School assignmenta
 Middle school 38% 46% −0.17
 High school 20% 17% 0.07
Second year 46% 51% −0.10
White 59% 62% −0.04
Female 78% 70% 0.14

Note. N = 154, except for White, where N = 137 and SAT score where N = 125. Cohen’s d was calculated for categorical predictors from the phi coefficient using

method discussed in Rosenthal and DiMatteo (2001).

*

p< .05.

**

p< .01.

***

p< .001.

a

Reference group is elementary school.