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New Findings on Racial Bias in Teachers' Evaluations of Student Achievement
This paper examines racial discrepancies in teachers' evaluations of student achievement, conditional on standardized test achievement. After correcting for measurement error in standardized test scores, results indicate teachers evaluate Black students as higher achieving than White students with the same standardized test achievement. This finding stands in contrast to prior findings on Black-White teacher assessment gaps. Further analysis indicates these findings are consistent with two potential explanations: first, standardized tests may exhibit bias against Black students, and second, teachers may inflate assessments of Black students relative to White students due to social desirability bias.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16815
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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teacher assessments
racial bias
standardized tests
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zhu, Maria
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2024
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Zhu, Maria
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2024
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