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Title: Understanding Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement: Empirical Lessons from National Data
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Phillips, Meredith |
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Understanding Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement: Empirical Lessons from National Data In: Analytic Issues in the Assessment of Student Achievement. D. Grissmer and M. Ross eds. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Economics of Discrimination; Genetics; High School and Beyond (HSB); Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY); National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Tests and Testing In 1966, James Coleman published results from the first national study to describe ethnic differences in academic achievement among children of various ages. Since that time, we have made considerable progress in survey design, cognitive assessment, and data analysis. Yet we have not made much progress in understanding when ethnic differences in academic achievement arise, how these differences change with age, or why such changes occur. The purpose of this paper is to highlight several reasons why we have learned so little about these important issues over the past few decades. I begin by reviewing recent research on how the test score gap between African Americans and European Americans changes as children age. I then discuss several conceptual and methodological issues that have hindered our understanding of ethnic differences in academic achievement. ...For both the CNLSY and Prospects, I estimated growth models in which I predicted ethnic differences in students' initial test scores and learning rates.(A response to Phillips follows, starting on pg. 157: "Response: Two Studies of Academic Achievement," by Robert M. Hauser) |
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Phillips, Meredith. "Understanding Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement: Empirical Lessons from National Data" In: Analytic Issues in the Assessment of Student Achievement. D. Grissmer and M. Ross eds. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000
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