Measuring teachers' stereotypes in the NEPS.

Autor/inn/en	Wenz, Sebastian E.; Olczyk, Melanie; Lorenz, Georg
Institution	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe
Titel	Measuring teachers' stereotypes in the NEPS.
Quelle	Bamberg: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) (2016), 33 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NEPS survey paper. 3
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Gender; Soziales Umfeld; Stereotyp; Vorurteil; Soziale Herkunft; Lehrer; Diskriminierung; Migration; Ethnische Minderheit; Russe; Türke; NEPS (National Educational Panel Study); Herkunftsland
Abstract	German data on the processes underlying discrimination is still sparse. Against this backdrop, this working paper discusses the measurement of a major source of discrimination: Stereotypes. Conceptualizing stereotypes as beliefs or sets of beliefs about the characteristics, attributes, or behaviors of a particular group of people, we introduce an explicit measure of teachers' stereotypes at the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Teachers are asked to estimate the average competencies of girls, boys, students of lower, middle, and upper class background, students of Turkish and Russian origin as well as immigrant students and ethnic majority students. Quantitative analyses based on a sample of 52 second-grade teachers show both a large variation in the expressed stereotypes between groups of students and between teachers. Furthermore, the analyses suggest that teachers' stereotypes are quite accurate overall in that they reflect group differences in achievement as reported in the recent literature. However, we also find biases to the disadvantage of boys, immigrants in general, as well as immigrants of Turkish and Russian origin in particular. We argue that these results and evidence from cognitive interviews speak for the validity of the instrument. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2020/2