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Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes

Mark J. Chin,
David M. Quinn,
Tasminda K. Dhaliwal,
Virginia S. Lovison

Theory suggests that teachers’ implicit racial attitudes affect their students, but we lack large-scale evidence on US teachers’ implicit biases and their correlates. Using nationwide data from Project Implicit, we find that teachers’ implicit White/Black biases (as measured by the implicit association test) vary by teacher gender and race. Teachers’ adjusted bias levels are lower in counties with larger shares of Black students. In the aggregate, counties in which teachers hold higher levels of implicit and explicit racial bias have larger adjusted White/Black test score inequalities and White/Black suspension disparities.

Keywords
Implicit racial bias, teacher bias, school discipline disparities, achievement inequality
Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
Teacher and Leader Development
Tags
Educator perceptions,
Race, ethnicity, and education
Download 02/2020
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/n3fe-vm37
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Chin, Mark J., David M. Quinn, Tasminda K. Dhaliwal, and Virginia S. Lovison. (). Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes. (EdWorkingPaper: -205). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/n3fe-vm37

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Published Edworkingpaper:
Chin, M. J., Quinn, D. M., Dhaliwal, T. K., & Lovison, V. S. (2020). Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes. Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20937240