No substantive effects of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement in Australia: a response to Sciffer, Perry and McConney

Marks, Gary N.

doi:10.1186/s40536-024-00196-w

Large-scale Assessments in Education

An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal

Table 2 Correlations among variables

From: No substantive effects of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement in Australia: a response to Sciffer, Perry and McConney

	Fem	NESB	ATSI	Par Ed	Ngov Schl	Prior Num	Prior read	Prior write	Prior spell	Prior gram	Sch SES	Prior Sch Ach	Num	Read	Write	Spell	Gram
Female		0.00	− 0.00	0.00	0.02	− 0.06	0.06	0.21	0.11	0.13	0.02	0.04	− 0.06	0.09	0.19	0.10	0.15
NESB	− 0.00		− 0.05	0.09	− 0.05	0.10	− 0.01	0.05	0.12	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.12	− 0.02	0.06	0.10	0.05
ATSI	0.00	− 0.05		− 0.17	− 0.11	− 0.18	− 0.18	− 0.22	− 0.17	− 0.20	− 0.20	− 0.26	− 0.18	− 0.18	− 0.20	− 0.16	− 0.18
Parents’ education	− 0.00	0.11	− 0.20		0.26	0.41	0.39	0.34	0.32	0.38	0.54	0.46	0.42	0.39	0.34	0.33	0.35
Non gov. school	0.01	− 0.02	− 0.10	0.19		0.16	0.18	0.20	0.13	0.17	0.48	0.37	0.18	0.20	0.21	0.13	0.16
Prior numeracy	− 0.06	0.02	− 0.19	0.37	0.10		0.70	0.56	0.63	0.71	0.45	0.52	0.87	0.65	0.52	0.62	0.64
Prior reading	0.09	− 0.00	− 0.20	0.38	0.12	0.69		0.61	0.65	0.74	0.41	0.45	0.67	0.77	0.57	0.63	0.67
Prior writing	0.17	0.07	− 0.22	0.33	0.13	0.55	0.60		0.65	0.65	0.39	0.45	0.54	0.58	0.62	0.62	0.59
Prior spelling	0.07	0.13	− 0.19	0.33	0.09	0.62	0.70	0.64		0.72	0.34	0.41	0.60	0.59	0.58	0.87	0.64
Prior grammar	0.11	0.03	− 0.20	0.38	0.10	0.70	0.76	0.63	0.74		0.40	0.47	0.69	0.70	0.59	0.70	0.71
Sch SES	0.00	0.07	− 0.23	0.56	0.35	0.35	0.36	0.35	0.32	0.35		0.85	0.47	0.40	0.38	0.34	0.37
Prior school Achiev.	0.02	0.05	− 0.30	0.44	0.25	0.43	0.43	0.47	0.41	0.44	0.78		0.53	0.44	0.43	0.40	0.43
Numeracy	− 0.07	0.08	− 0.20	0.41	0.11	0.79	0.66	0.55	0.62	0.68	0.39	0.44		0.69	0.56	0.62	0.67
Reading	0.07	− 0.01	− 0.20	0.40	0.12	0.66	0.76	0.55	0.63	0.70	0.36	0.41	0.73		0.62	0.63	0.71
Writing	0.19	0.09	− 0.23	0.35	0.13	0.53	0.58	0.63	0.62	0.60	0.36	0.44	0.59	0.61		0.61	0.61
Spelling	0.11	0.13	− 0.18	0.34	0.10	0.59	0.66	0.62	0.86	0.70	0.31	0.39	0.64	0.66	0.67		0.68
Grammar	0.12	0.05	− 0.20	0.37	0.10	0.64	0.68	0.56	0.65	0.70	0.35	0.41	0.70	0.72	0.62	0.69

Year 5 correlations below diagonal. Year 9 correlations above diagonal. Same domain correlations are italicized
Non gov. school: non-government school (Catholic or independent); NESB: non-English-speaking background; ATSI: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

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