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Studies have pointed to poverty, mobility, attitudes, teacher expectation, parental involvement and the lack of pre-school experience.
Our research has shown that the single most significant factor causing this gap is teacher expectation, regardless of whether the teachers are white or minority!
To date, most research on teacher expectation effects has relied on explicit expectation measures that are prone to social desirability biases.
Since the original Pygmalion study, there have been very few interventions in the teacher expectation field and none that have been randomized control trials designed to change teacher practices to reflect those of high expectation teachers.
A total of 38 teachers completed both a traditional teacher expectation measure and a modified Implicit Association Task designed to assess ethnic stereotypes associated with academic achievement and failure.
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"I expected to find something –- we had seen other data that linked teacher expectations with just remaining enrolled in college," said Boser.
We have empirical research that has proved the dramatic effect of teacher expectations for more than 40 years.
Other researchers have zeroed in on other culprits, whether inferior schools, lower teacher expectations, impoverished family backgrounds or some combination.
The report says issues such as underachievement, low teacher expectations, high rates of student exclusions, racism and Islamophobia need to be tackled.
Is he not aware of the underachievement statistics for many of Britain's racial minorities, widely believed to be party fuelled by low teacher expectations?
Children with names that were linked to low socioeconomic status or being black, as measured by the approach used by Bertrand and Mullainathan, were met with lower teacher expectations.
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