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Table 4 Grade nine 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.	0.74	0.55	0.86	0.66	0.84
Sex	0.05	0.10	0.01	0.08	− 0.01
Indigenous	− 0.04	− 0.04	− 0.01	− 0.03	− 0.02
NESB	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.03
SES	0.07	0.10	0.04	0.07	0.06
Between
Sector	0.07**	0.11	0.06*	− 0.03^NS	0.09

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

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