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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2021 Nov;57(11):1910–1925. doi: 10.1037/dev0001251

Table 3.

Growth in Math Identity by Race/Ethnicity/Immigrant Status and Destination

Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
Variable Coef. SE Coef. SE Coef. SE Coef. SE
Race/ethnicity/immigrant generation
 Black   0.035 0.049 −0.114 0.090 −0.011 0.091 −0.003 0.091
 Mexican-origin (all)   0.033 0.058   0.170 0.075*   0.220 0.090*
 Mexican-origin first generation   0.136 0.207
 Mexican-origin second/2.5 generation   0.265 0.102**
 Mexican-origin 3+ generation   0.125 0.096
 Mexican-origin unknown generation (ref. White)   0.211 0.123+
Destination
 New destination −0.108 0.053* −0.043 0.068 −0.080 0.080 −0.069 0.078
 Other destination (ref. Established destination) −0.050 0.051 −0.013 0.063 −0.027 0.084 −0.012 0.081
Interactions
 Black × New Destination   0.095 0.106   0.078 0.110   0.068 0.110
 Black × Other Destination   0.193 0.111+   0.215 0.113+   0.187 0.108+
 Mexican-Origin (all) × New Destination −0.298 0.090** −0.189 0.106+
 Mexican-Origin (all) × Other Destination −0.312 0.145* −0.242 0.170
 Mexican-Origin First Generation × New Destination −0.239 0.264
 Mexican-Origin First Generation × Other Gestination −0.861 0.390*
 Mexican-Origin Second/2.5 Generation × New Destination −0.249 0.126*
 Mexican-Origin Second/2.5 Generation × Other Destination −0.177 0.187
 Mexican-Origin 3+ Generation × New Destination −0.247 0.189
 Mexican-Origin 3+ Generation × Other Destination   0.044 0.276
 Mexican-Origin Unknown Generation × New Destination −0.198 0.155
 Mexican-Origin Unknown Generation × Other Destination −0.265 0.144+
 Grade 9 math identity   0.542 0.018***   0.541 0.018***   0.478 0.015***   0.476 0.016***
 Immigrant generation No No Yes No
Individual level characteristics No No Yes Yes
School characteristics No No Yes Yes
County characteristics No No Yes Yes
Math background No No Yes Yes
Constant   0.021 0.049 −0.018 0.059 −1.606 0.831+ −1.540 0.849+
Random effects parameters
 School variance   0.017 0.006   0.017 0.006   0.015 0.005   0.015 0.005
 Residual variance   0.647 0.018   0.645 0.018   0.604 0.018   0.604 0.018
n 10,440 10,440 10,440 10,440
Number of schools 740 740 740 740

Note. Results were also estimated without grade 9 math identity and are available upon request. Data source was the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal study of 2009, 2013 Update and High School Transcripts Restricted-use Data File.

+

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.