?Model minorities? in the classroom? Positive evaluation bias towards Asian students and its consequences

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shi, Ying; Zhu, Maria
• 署名单位: Syracuse University; Syracuse University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104838
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: Teacher evaluation; racial bias; Asian Americans

摘要

The fast-growing demographic group of Asian Americans is often perceived as a model minority. This paper establishes empirical evidence of this stereotype in the context of education and then analyzes its consequences. We show that teachers rate Asian students' academic skills more favorably than observa-tionally similar White students in the same class, even after accounting for test performance and behav-ior. This contrasts with teachers' lower likelihood of favoring Black and Hispanic students. Notably, teachers respond to the presence of any Asian student in the classroom by widening Black-White and Hispanic-White assessment gaps. This suggests that the model minority stereotype can negatively impact other minority groups despite its ostensibly positive connotation.(c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.