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Female teachers tend to have a stronger pro-female bias than male teachers. [15] Using individual teacher effects, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Camille Terrier showed that teachers' bias affects male students' motivation and impairs their future progress. [9] [16] It can also significantly affect the students' career decisions. [12]
There are various concerns regarding the identification of students in special education. The over-identification of students refers to the concern that students of color, particularly African American students, are placed in special education at a higher rate than their white student peers, which can lead to potential stigmatization and negative impacts on their educational experiences. [1]
Wake County school board members hold an implicit bias workshop as part of a board mini-retreat on Nov. 16, 2023 in Cary. N.C.
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.
Students are categorized into different groups based on their standardized test scores. Tracking is justified by the following four assumptions: Students learn better in an academically equal group. Positive self-attitudes are developed in homogenous groups, especially for slower students that do not have a high rate of ability differences.
As a teacher, I try to check my gender bias. When I’m exasperated with my boys, ready to call the office, I try to pause. I’ll give the boys extra reminders and transition time.
School districts need to certify teachers in a specific financial discipline much as they would for a math or history teacher. Or school districts should contract outside professionals.
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...