Education polygenic scores predict year-to-year math enrollment above and beyond prior-year math GPA, family SES, and school SES¶
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q3 i1 A 1-SD increase in education-PGS predicted 1.26, 1.15, and 1.13 times greater odds of enrolling in math in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade respectively, controlling for math GPA and SES. → K. Paige Harden 2020
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K. Paige Harden 2020¶
K. Paige Harden, Benjamin W. Domingue, Daniel W. Belsky, Jason D. Boardman, Robert Crosnoe, Margherita Malanchini, Michel Nivard, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob and Kathleen Mullan Harris. (2020). Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-0060-2
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Year-by-year logistic analyses (Supplementary Table 5) of students enrolled in math in grades 9-11 predicting next-year enrollment, reported in Results. Odds ratios OR = 1.26 (grade 10), 1.15 (grade 11), and 1.13 (grade 12) show the PGS added "novel information above and beyond what could be observed from students'performance in math class."
"After controlling for these covariates, a 1-SD increase in the education-PGS was still associated with 1.26 times greater odds of taking a math class in 10th-grade (95% CI = [1.05–1.56]), 1.15 times greater odds in 11th-grade"
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Related Claims¶
- Higher education polygenic scores predict placement into more advanced 9th-grade math courses, robust to family SES, school SES, and school fixed effects — related
- Higher education polygenic scores predict persistence in mathematics coursetaking across four years of secondary school, robust to SES covariates, prior tracking, and school fixed effects — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- School SES and education-PGS each predicted completing Calculus without a significant interaction, and even top-2% polygenic-score students rarely took Calculus — related
- Children in higher SES families have higher average polygenic scores for educational attainment — related
- SES differences in educational achievement persist after accounting for polygenic score differences between children — related
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Education polygenic scores predict year-to-year math enrollment above and beyond prior-year math GPA, family SES, and school SES |
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Education polygenic scores predict year-to-year math enrollment above and beyond prior-year math GPA, family SES, and school SES |
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