Beyond judgment bias: How students' ethnicity and academic profile consistency influence teachers' tracking judgments

in Social Psychology of Education (2013), 16

Research on school tracking has provided evidence that students with immigrant backgrounds are overrepresented in the lower school tracks. As teachers are the main decision makers when it comes to ... [more ▼]

Research on school tracking has provided evidence that students with immigrant backgrounds are overrepresented in the lower school tracks. As teachers are the main decision makers when it comes to tracking, we investigated whether teachers’ tracking judgments are biased by the immigrant backgrounds of the students and how teachers’ tracking judgments are affected by inconsistencies in students’ academic profiles. Drawing on dual process models of judgment formation, we conducted two experimental studies to investigate teachers’ judgments. The results of both studies showed less favorable teacher judgments of students with immigrant backgrounds than of students without immigrant backgrounds. Students with inconsistent academic profiles were also judged less favorably than students with consistent profiles. Think aloud data indicated careful processing of all information both for students with immigrant backgrounds and students with inconsistent profiles. Results are discussed with regard to their underlyingmechanisms as well as with regard to their implications for teacher training. [less ▲]

European Conference on Data Analysis 2013. Book of Abstracts.

Book published by University of Luxembourg (2013)

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in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften (2013), 35

Regression-based models of teacher judgments and their adequacy in reflecting differences of judgment formation.

Scientific Conference (2013)

Faktorenanalyse, exploratorische

in Wirtz, Markus Antonius (Ed.) Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie (2013)

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Scientific Conference (2012, September)

Invited talk - Prädiktoren und prognostische Validität der Sekundarschulempfehlungen in Luxemburg

Conference given outside the academic context (2012)

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Scientific Conference (2012, July)

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Scientific Conference (2012, June)

Final report to the FNR for the CORE project "Students' transition from primary to secondary school: Cognitive determinants and prognostic validity of teachers' transition decisions"

Report (2012)