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Table 2 Grade five standardised regression coefficients of control variables

From: The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition

	Reading	Writing	Spelling	Grammar	Numeracy
Within
Prior Ach.	0.71	0.55	0.84	0.65	0.75
Sex	0.00^NS	0.11	0.05	0.06	− 0.03
Indigenous	− 0.03	− 0.05	− 0.01	− 0.04	− 0.03
NESB	0.01	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.06
SES	0.10	0.11	0.04	0.09	0.10
Between
Sector	− 0.05**	0.04	0.03^NS	− 0.01^NS	− 0.02^NS

All p < 0.001 unless *p < 0.05 or **p < 0.01 or ^NS (not significant)

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