teacher bias
Instructor's unfair favoritism
Teacher bias refers to the preconceptions and prejudices educators bring to their interactions with students, often unconsciously affecting expectations, grading, and treatment.
Such bias may favor or disadvantage students based on race, gender, socioeconomic background, or perceived ability: Studies show teacher bias can influence which students get recommended for advanced courses.
The term appears frequently in educational research and policy discussions about achievement gaps.
- favoritismPreferential treatment of some
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- gradingAssigning marks to work
- grade inflationUnmerited higher academic scores
- unfairUnjust or partial
expectations · low expectations · self-fulfilling prophecy · stereotypes · classroom · classroom management · evaluation · discrimination · implicit · unconscious · snap judgments · perception · assessment · students · preferential · judgment · marking · achievement
teacher biasobjectivity
Freedom from personal bias
impartiality · equitable treatment · even-handedness · fairness · neutrality
teacher biasstandardized testing
Identical assessments across populations
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