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Subtle Discrimination: Do Stereotypes among Teachers Trigger Bias in Their Expectations and Widen Ethnic Achievement Gaps?
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Lorenz, Georg – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
Ethnic and racial disparities in educational outcomes, such as test scores, are a core issue of educational research. While the role of student and family factors in the formation of such disparities is well established, existing studies fail to draw a similarly clear picture of how teachers contribute to ethnic and racial achievement gaps. In…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Social Discrimination, Ethnic Stereotypes, Social Bias
Temperamentally Inhibited Children Are at Risk for Poorer Maths Performance: Self-Concept as Mediator
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Aunola, Kaisa; Mullola, Sari; Luonua, Marjaana; Tuomas, Anne; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
It has repeatedly been found that temperamental inhibition and low academic achievement are associated with each other: children with cautious and wary or shy behaviour are at risk for low academic achievement. Several suggestions about the mechanism behind this association have been made, these highlighting for example, the fewer learning…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Personality Traits, Low Achievement, Correlation
When Does Math Anxiety in Parents and Teachers Predict Math Anxiety and Math Achievement in Elementary School Children? The Role of Gender and Grade Year
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Szczygiel, Monika – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
The study investigated the relationship between math anxiety in parents and teachers and math anxiety and math achievement in first- to third-grade children. The results indicate that math anxiety in fathers (but not mothers and teachers) is associated with math anxiety in first-grade children and third-grade girls. Math anxiety in mothers and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students
Does Learning-Related Social Competence in the 1st Grade Predict Academic Achievement in the 3rd Grade?
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Legkauskas, Visvaldas; Magelinskaite-Legkauskiene, Šarune; Kepalaite, Albina – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
This longitudinal study investigated the links between school anxiety, social competence, and teacher-student relationship in the 1st grade and academic achievement in the 3rd grade. The sample consisted of 389 Lithuanian school children who at the time of the study started their 1st year in elementary school. Regression analyses indicated that…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 3, Interpersonal Competence, Anxiety
Predicting Elementary Teachers' Efforts to Manage Social Dynamics from Classroom Composition, Teacher Characteristics, and the Early Year Peer Ecology
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Braun, Summer S.; Zadzora, Kathleen M.; Miller, Aaron M.; Gest, Scott D. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Teachers' efforts to manage classroom social dynamics are associated with students' social and academic adjustment, but the determinants of teachers' use of social dynamics management strategies have remained unexplored. Multiple potential determinants of strategy use were examined in a study of 164 teachers and their 2986 students in 164 1st,…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Student Adjustment
Teacher Involvement as a Protective Factor from the Association between Race-Based Bullying and Smoking Initiation
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Earnshaw, Valerie A.; Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Peters, Susan M.; McCaslin, Catherine; Ickovics, Jeannette R. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
Experiencing bullying as a victim is associated with negative health and health behavior outcomes, including substance use, among adolescents. However, understandings of protective factors--factors that enhance adolescents' resilience to the negative consequences of bullying--remain limited. The current study investigates whether teacher…
Descriptors: Smoking, Bullying, Race, Correlation