Sentences with phrase «teacher biases suggests»

Second, our estimates of teacher biases suggests that all teachers are overly optimistic about whether their students will complete college, but that white teachers are less optimistic about black students than are black teachers.

Not exact matches

Some cognitive scientists suggest that teachers may subtly communicate different academic expectations of boys and girls and these biased expectations may become self - fulfilling.

That suggests that any estimates of the effect of teacher gender on girls» math achievement may well be biased by the fact that women are more likely to be assigned to lower - performing math students.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

We further examine whether such disagreements are related to the racial match between students and teachers, which would suggest that at least a subset of teachers have systematically biased beliefs about students» educational potential.

Now a new study suggests that race plays a big role in influencing how teachers see their students» potential for academic success, raising questions about whether teachers» biases could be holding back black students and contributing to the nation's yawning achievement gap.

It is certainly likely that some of the disparities are being driven by the bias of teachers and principals, implicit or otherwise, as some studies suggest.

Mindset Shifts and Parent Teacher Home Visits, a study funded in part by Flamboyan Foundation, commissioned by the Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV), and led by RTI International, suggests home visits decrease implicit bias among educators.

While these researchers suggest different statistical controls to yield less biased results (i.e., a dynamic ordinary least square [DOLS] estimator), the bottom line is that VAMs can not «effectively isolate the «true» contribution of teachers and schools to achievement growth» over time.

However, there is no overwhelming evidence that would suggest bias in this comparison; there is no reason to believe that these known factors — teacher turnover, absenteeism, feeling unsafe in school, and exposure to violent crime at school — would occur more in the private sector versus the public sector or vice versa58.

The judge said show the movie but only after bias and errors were identified by the teacher and suggested balance such as the documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle.