Ana P. Cañedo
Bias in kindergarten ability group placement: Does parental lobbying make it worse? Do formal assessments make it better?
Von Hippel & Cañedo (2021) reported that US kindergarten teachers placed girls, Asian-Americans, and children from families of high socioeconomic status (SES) into higher ability groups than their test scores alone would warrant. The results fit the view that teachers were biased.
Is kindergarten ability group placement biased? New data, new methods, new answers
Topics: Student LearningHalf of kindergarten teachers split children into higher and lower ability groups for reading or math. In national data, we predicted kindergarten ability group placement using linear and ordinal logistic regression with classroom fixed effects. In fall, test scores were the best predictors of… more →