Melanie Olczyk, Sarah Gentrup, Thorsten Schneider, Anna Volodina, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Elizabeth Washbrook, Sarah Jiyoon Kwon, Jane Waldfogel
We examined whether inaccurate teacher judgements of primary school student achievement correlate with students' gender and whether such bias contributes to gender achievement gaps in language and mathematics. Our study used ex-post harmonised longitudinal data from England, Germany, and the US. We observed domain-specific teacher judgement bias with a positive bias for girls in the language domain and for boys in mathematics. Furthermore, biased teacher judgements partly mediated the effect of gender on later achievement...
November 2023: Social Science Research