Why Is Murat’s Achievement So Low? Causal Attributions and Implicit Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minority Students Predict Preservice Teachers’ Judgments About Achievement

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Title: Why Is Murat’s Achievement So Low? Causal Attributions and Implicit Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minority Students Predict Preservice Teachers’ Judgments About Achievement
Authors: Sabine Glock, Anna Shevchuk, Hannah Kleen
Source: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 13 (2022)
Publisher Information: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
Publication Year: 2022
Collection: LCC:Psychology
Subject Terms: causal attribution, implicit attitudes, ethnic minority students, ethnic bias, teacher judgment, Psychology, BF1-990
More Details: In many educational systems, ethnic minority students score lower in their academic achievement, and consequently, teachers develop low expectations regarding this student group. Relatedly, teachers’ implicit attitudes, explicit expectations, and causal attributions also differ between ethnic minority and ethnic majority students—all in a disadvantageous way for ethnic minority students. However, what is not known so far, is how attitudes and causal attributions contribute together to teachers’ judgments. In the current study, we explored how implicit attitudes and causal attributions contribute to preservice teachers’ judgments of the low educational success of an ethnic minority student. Results showed that both implicit attitudes and causal attributions predicted language proficiency and intelligence judgments. Negative implicit attitudes, assessed with the IRAP, and internal stable causal attributions led to lower judgments of language proficiency, whereas lower judgments of intelligence were predicted by positive implicit attitudes and higher judgments of intelligence by external stable attributions. Substantial differences in the prediction of judgments could be found between the IRAP and BIAT as measures of implicit attitudes.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1664-1078
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819793/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819793
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/326bfb7ce75b421da396aa2c5e482497
Accession Number: edsdoj.326bfb7ce75b421da396aa2c5e482497
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:16641078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819793
Published in:Frontiers in Psychology
Language:English