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Title: Ethnic and Racial Similarity in Developmental Process: A Study of Academic Achievement
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1. Rowe, David C.
Vazsonyi, Alexander T.
Flannery, Daniel J.
Ethnic and Racial Similarity in Developmental Process: A Study of Academic Achievement
Psychological Science 6,1 (January 1995): 33-38.
Also: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/6/1/33.abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Family Environment; Hispanics; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); LISREL; Methods/Methodology; Modeling; Pairs (also see Siblings); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Racial Equality/Inequality; Racial Studies; Siblings

Correlation matrices were computed on academic achievement and family environment measures using longitudinal data on sibling pairs. Assessment instruments included the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment and an indirect measure based on sibling correlations for achievement. Data were from 1,130 children (mean age 9 years in 1988) of participants in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The 8 * 8 correlation matrices were computed on Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites separately. When compared employing a LISREL method, the matrices were equal across the ethnic-racial groups, suggesting that developmental processes influencing academic achievement may be similar in Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites. A structural equation model with 4 free parameters was fitted successfully to a correlation matrix pooled across groups. The existence of minority-specific developmental processes was not supported. (PsycINFO Database Copyright 1995 American Psychological Association, all rights reserved)
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Rowe, David C., Alexander T. Vazsonyi and Daniel J. Flannery. "Ethnic and Racial Similarity in Developmental Process: A Study of Academic Achievement." Psychological Science 6,1 (January 1995): 33-38.