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A recent study of student evaluations of teaching (SET) from a large public university in Sydney focused on gender and cultural bias. [10] The dataset of more than 523,000 individual student surveys across 5 different faculties spanned a seven year period 2010-2016. There were 2,392 unique courses and 3,123 individual teachers in the dataset.
The avoidance of racial stereotypes or cultural bias in classroom material, textbooks, coursework topics and examination questions. For example, a wide range of names from various ethnic backgrounds might be used in word problem questions. [10]
This method may underestimate the bias since, for written exams, the handwriting style might still convey information about the student. [3] According to the Experimental Evidence on Teachers' Racial Bias in Student Evaluation, "teachers rated a student's writing sample lower when it was randomly signaled to have a black author versus a white ...
The teachers' perception of a students' academic abilities often influences how detracking is carried out in the classroom. [4] Systemic bias and educator bias is a problematic issue in education generally, but specifically where tracking is concerned in ability-based grouping.
A Critical Race Theory scholar urged the Wake County school board this week to push past concerns about “white discomfort” to change policies that she says are causing systemic harm to ...
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
A 2005 meta-analysis of 35 years of research on teacher expectations found that, while self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom do occur, the effects are usually small and temporary. It is unknown whether self-fulfilling prophecies affect intelligence or have an otherwise harmful effect.
For example, when trying to hold boys' attention teachers will often use examples that reference classically male roles, perpetuating a gender bias in content. [52] In addition to a curriculum that recognizes that gender impacts all students and their learning, other gender-sensitive curricula directly engages gender-diversity issues and topics.