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Title: Black-White Test Score Differential
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Lang, Kevin Sepulveda, Carlos |
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Black-White Test Score Differential Presented: Cambridge, MA, Annual Achievement Gap Initiative Research Conference, June 2007. Also: http://people.bu.edu/csepulve/Lang&SepulvedaKG-15.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Keyword(s): Achievement; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children, Academic Development; Elementary School Students; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parent-Child Interaction; 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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a sample from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we replicate the Fryer/Levitt finding that a small number of sociodemographic factors explain all of the black-white reading gap in kindergarten. These factors also explain most of the gap in math in kindergarten. However, they explain relatively little of the gap in cognitive skill as measured by the Picture Peabody Vocabulary Test at age three or four. Conditional on early PPVT and mother's AFQT, black children outperform white children in reading through second grade and equal their performance in both math and reading through fifth grade. A variety of demographic and home environment variables explain about half of the black-white gap on the PPVT. Strikingly, as we include additional measures of the home environment, the effect of mother's AFQT on child's early PPVT falls almost to zero. |
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Lang, Kevin and Carlos Sepulveda. "Black-White Test Score Differential." Presented: Cambridge, MA, Annual Achievement Gap Initiative Research Conference, June 2007. |