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Table 5 Two-level regression discontinuity results for mathematics achievement as an outcome and socioeconomic school composition as a predictor

From: Equal opportunities for all? Analyzing within-country variation in school effectiveness

Level in model

Parameter

Primary school

Secondary school

 

Norway 2015

Norway 1995

Iceland 1995

Cyprus 1995

Greece 1995

Scotland 1995

Norway 2015

Norway 1995

Iceland 1995

Sweden 1995

Cyprus 1995

Scotland 1995

Slovak Rep. 1995

 

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

Par (SE)

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

School level

Intercept \({\gamma }_{00}\)

− 0.231* (0.029)

− 0.339* (0.046)

− 0.295* (0.050)

− 0.256* (0.049)

− 0.229* (0.045)

− 0.192* (0.038)

− 0.094* (0.030)

− 0.111 (0.072)

− 0.122* (0.052)

− 0.043 (0.035)

− 0.009 (0.038)

− 0.151* (0.040)

− 0.113* (0.038)

Var. intercept \({u}_{0j}\)

0.034* (0.008)

0.067* (0.015)

0.053* (0.013)

0.080* (0.014)

0.186* (0.046)

0.084* (0.020)

0.030* (0.006)

0.017 (0.016)

0.055* (0.016)

0.058* (0.012)

0.040* (0.009)

0.076* (0.017)

0.136* (0.033)

Mean added-year slope \({\gamma }_{10}{D}_{ij}\)

0.399* (0.049)

0.634* (0.070)

0.579* (0.069)

0.421* (0.070)

0.437* (0.052)

0.305* (0.059)

0.186* (0.051)

0.262* (0.120)

0.210* (0.088)

0.253* (0.084)

0.089 (0.056)

0.302* (0.067)

0.333* (0.055)

Var. added-year slope \({u}_{1j}{D}_{ij}\)

0.049* (0.013)

0.005 (0.010)

0.008 (0.014)

0.020 (0.013)

0.082* (0.020)

0.050* (0.014)

0.028* (0.010)

0.058 (0.032)

0.092* (0.036)

0.293* (0.045)

0.010 (0.009)

0.154* (0.036)

0.138* (0.027)

Intercept on comp.\({\gamma }_{01}{C}_{j}\)

0.788* (0.087)

0.422* (0.173)

0.599* (0.149)

0.337* (0.145)

0.624* (0.148)

0.755* (0.086)

0.726* (0.065)

0.500* (0.188)

0.270 (0.144)

0.815* (0.106)

1.188* (0.200)

0.707* (0.080)

0.615* (0.098)

Add.-y. slope on comp.\({\gamma }_{11}{C}_{j}{D}_{ij}\)

− 0.181 (0.108)

0.196 (0.159)

− 0.110 (0.158)

− 0.066 (0.140)

0.031 (0.099)

0.013 (0.083)

− 0.027 (0.087)

0.299 (0.282)

0.296 (0.265)

0.213 (0.209)

0.044 (0.168)

0.192 (0.111)

0.211 (0.108)

Student level

Mean age slope \({\beta }_{2}{A}_{ij}\)

0.027* (0.003)

0.030* (0.004)

0.024* (0.005)

0.026* (0.005)

0.028* (0.004)

0.033* (0.004)

0.014* (0.003)

0.009 (0.009)

0.016* (0.005)

0.012* (0.004)

0.019* (0.004)

0.005 (0.004)

0.006* (0.003)

Residual variance \({r}_{ij}\)

0.762* (0.016)

0.661* (0.021)

0.695* (0.030)

0.705* (0.018)

0.601* (0.016)

0.630* (0.017)

0.866* (0.016)

0.827* (0.041)

0.851* (0.034)

0.691* (0.018)

0.843* (0.025)

0.678* (0.020)

0.675* (0.016)

  1. The columns depict the results of the two-level regression model described in Eq. (8) for the different samples. The rows depict the parameters with standard errors (SE) in parentheses. The analyses are based on z-standardized achievement and school composition scores
  2. *p < 0.050