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 |
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| 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** | |||||||||||
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| 13. Objective Assessment Math (Spring) | -- | .03 | .15** | −.10** | .07 | .13** | −.26** | ||||||||||||
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| 14. Teacher Gender (2% Male (0); 98% Female (1)) | -- | .10** | −.13** | .16** | −.17** | −.14** | |||||||||||||
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| 15. Teacher Race/Ethnicity (68% Not White (0); 32% White (1)) | -- | −.12** | −.01 | −.08* | −.42** | ||||||||||||||
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| 16. Teacher Highest Level of Education (M = 2.06, SD = .95) | -- | −.33** | .11** | .23** | |||||||||||||||
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| 17. Teacher Months Experience in Early Childhood (M = 11.00, SD = 8.42) | -- | −.14** | .05 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 18. Class Average Age (M = 55.57, SD = 2.71) | -- | .24** | |||||||||||||||||
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| 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).