International Journal Special Education

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION Vol 26, No: 3, 2011Table 4. Predictors of special education identification: A comparison of results for two multinomiallogit models. The first model contains only level-1 student predictors. The second model addschosen school-level predictors, presented in the final model of Table 5.Predictors of Identification in Mental RetardationWithout School Predictors With School PredictorsCoefficient(S.E.) p-value Odds Odds p-valueIntercept -4.08 (.35) 0 0.02 59.19 0.03African American .36 (.35) 0.31 1.43 1.23 0.89Asian -1.17 (.36) 0 0.3 0.4 0.56Latino -.67 (.36) 0.06 0.51 0.57 0.71White -.55 (.36) 0.12 0.58 0.57 0.71Male -.68 (.50) 0.18 0.51 0.52 0.8African American Male 1.08 (.50) 0.03 2.95 2.89 0.68Asian Male .82 (.50) 0.1 2.27 2.18 0.77Latino Male 0.96 (.50) 0.06 2.6 2.5 0.72White Male 1.01 (.50) 0.04 2.75 2.66 0.7Predictors For Identification in Emotional DisturbanceWithout School Predictors With School PredictorsCoefficient(S.E.) p-value Odds Odds p-valueIntercept -4.95 (.36) 0 0.01 2.39 0.748African American 0.20 (.37) 0.59 1.22 1.2 0.94Asian -1.40 (.41) 0 0.25 0.2 0.52Latino -1.02 (.37) 0.01 0.36 0.41 0.7White -0.09 (.37) 0.8 0.91 0.82 0.93Male 0.37 (.46) 0.43 1.44 1.44 0.9African American Male 0.84 (.46) 0.07 2.32 2.37 0.77Asian Male 0.64 (.51) 0.21 1.89 1.9 0.84Latino Male 0.90 (.46) 0.05 2.46 2.47 0.76White Male 0.68 (.46) 0.14 1.97 1.98 0.82Predictors of Identification in Special Learning DisabilityWithout School Predictors With School PredictorsCoefficient(S.E.) p-value Odds Odds p-valueIntercept -2.95 (.20) 0 0.05 79.13 0African American 0.13 (.20) 0.5 1.14 0.96 0.97Asian -1.35 (.21) 0 0.26 0.27 0.16Latino -0.01 (.20) 0.97 0.99 1 1White -0.02 (.20) 0.93 0.98 1 1Male 0.37 (.16) 0.02 1.45 1.46 0.73African American Male 0.31 (.16) 0.06 1.36 1.37 0.78Asian Male 0.21 (.17) 0.23 1.23 1.22 0.87Latino Male 0.21 (.16) 0.2 1.23 1.23 1White Male 0.21 (.16) 0.19 1.24 1.23 0.85Note. All coefficients reported are unstandardized, and reported with robust standard errors (S.E.). For the first and second model,the p-value is based on a t-statistics with 32,171 and 32,156 degrees of freedom, respectively.162