Test Scores, Subjective Assessment, and Stereotyping of Ethnic Minorities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Burgess, Simon; Greaves, Ellen
• 署名单位: University of Bristol
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/669340
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 535-576
• 关键词: outcomes evidence; GENDER; blind; teachers; RACE

摘要

We assess whether ethnic minority pupils are subject to low teacher expectations. We exploit the English testing system of quasi-blind externally marked tests and nonblind internal assessment to compare differences in these assessment methods between white and ethnic minority pupils. We find evidence that some ethnic groups are systematically underassessed relative to their white peers, while some are overassessed. We propose a stereotype model in which a teacher's local experience of an ethnic group affects assessment of current pupils; this is supported by the data.