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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Educ. 2010 Oct;83(4):312–332. doi: 10.1177/0038040710383518

Table 3.

Variable Means by Race/Ethnicity

Child-Level Variables
Race/Ethnicity Test Score Approaches
to Learning
Externalizing
Behaviors
Family
SES
Non-Hispanic White 0.21 0.12 −0.06 0.30
Black −0.31 −0.27 0.26 −0.47
Hispanic −0.44 −0.12 −0.03 −0.53
Asian 0.16 0.14 −0.24 0.18
Other Ethnicity −0.21 −0.17 0.20 −0.14

School-Level Variables
Race/Ethnicity School
Mean Test
Score
School
Mean
Approaches
School Mean
Externalizing
School
Mean
SES
School
Percent
Minority

Non-Hispanic White 0.16 0.09 −0.05 0.24 18.30
Black −0.24 −0.15 0.12 −0.39 72.34
Hispanic −0.30 −0.08 −0.01 −0.37 68.55
Asian 0.04 −0.02 −0.06 0.05 58.08
Other Ethnicity −0.19 −0.10 0.15 −0.11 56.74

Note: Child-level variables are standardized across all students. School-level variables (except percent minority) are within-school aggregates of the child-level measures, and are therefore not standardized across schools.