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JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 111, Issue 6, Pages 645-656Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2017.1389682
Keywords
English language learners; grit; Latino students; Measures of Effective Teaching dataset; upper elementary
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- Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education [R305B140026]
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Students' academic achievement is the result of the interplay between person-level and contextual factors (R. R: Greene, 2014; D. E. Hunt, 1975). Students perform better when classroom characteristics support their characteristics. The authors examine whether student perceptions of two classroom characteristics (care and control) fit with two Latino student characteristics (English language learner status and grit) in relation to their academic achievement. Using a sample of fourth- and fifth-grade Latino students from the Measures of Effective Teaching dataset (n = 3,272), the authors conducted a series of nested regression models with two- and three-way interactions between student characteristics and student perceptions of classroom characteristics. Findings revealed that grit is most strongly associated with Latino English language learners' English/language arts achievement when students perceived that teachers used high levels of care and control. We conclude with implications for practitioners.
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