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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2014 Oct 20;107(3):805–820. doi: 10.1037/edu0000008

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for and Intercorrelations Between Variables

Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1. Child Gender (50% Male (0); 50% Female (1)) -- −.06 −.002 −.21** −.21** .17** −.04 .08* −.01 .07 .06 .08* .10* −.03 .07 .01 .03 .01 .02
2. Child Race/Ethnicity (67% Not White (0); 33% White (1)) -- −.07 .03 −.03 .13** −.14** .15** .21** .39** .36** .41** .37** .09* .39** −.13** .09* −.17** −.52**
3. Child Age (M = 55.41, SD = 4.27) -- −.02 −.07 .08* −.001 .20** .05 .28** .32** .22** .20** −.10** −.04 .07 −.09* .60** .14**
4. Child Behavior Problems (M = .67, SD = .77) -- .63** −.46** −.06 −.14** −.03 −.05 −.03 −.07 −.002 .03 .02 −.04 −.03 −.08* −.08*
5. Child Inattentive Symptoms (M = .96, SD = .70) -- −.51** −.01 −.31** −.16** −.18** −.16** −.18** −.18** −.02 −.03 .02 .03 −.07 −.02
6. Child Social Skills (M = 1.45, SD = .27) -- .003 .48** .34** .23** .18** .25** .19** .14** .19** −.15** .18** .03 −.09*
7. English Language Learner (96% No (0); 4% Yes (1)) -- −.07* −.01 −.14** −.08* −.13** −.03 .03 .03 .05 .09* −.01 .10**
8. Teacher Perceptions Language and Pre-literacy (Fall) -- .67** .44** .39** .44** .38** .04 .10* −.13** .02 .08* −.11**
9. Teacher Perceptions Math (Fall) -- .29** .26** .32** .26** .06 .19** −.24** −.002 −.03 −.17**
10. Objective Assessment Language and Pre-literacy (Fall) -- .71** .83** .69** .01 .22** −.09** −.002 .17** −.29**
11. Objective Assessment Math (Fall) -- .68** .72** .03 .13** −.06 −.02 .17** −.25**
12. Objective Assessment Language and Pre-literacy (Spring) -- .73** .05 .18** −.13** .08* .14** −.29**

13. Objective Assessment Math (Spring) -- .03 .15** −.10** .07 .13** −.26**

14. Teacher Gender (2% Male (0); 98% Female (1)) -- .10** −.13** .16** −.17** −.14**

15. Teacher Race/Ethnicity (68% Not White (0); 32% White (1)) -- −.12** −.01 −.08* −.42**

16. Teacher Highest Level of Education (M = 2.06, SD = .95) -- −.33** .11** .23**

17. Teacher Months Experience in Early Childhood (M = 11.00, SD = 8.42) -- −.14** .05

18. Class Average Age (M = 55.57, SD = 2.71) -- .24**

19. Program Type (51% Community Child Care (0); 49% Head Start (1)) --

Note.

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01. Nteachers = 123 and Nchildren = 760. Missing data across demographic variables ranged from 0–3%; valid percentages are presented. Teacher perception and objective assessment variables are standardized (M = 0; SD = 1).