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Teachers also give boys lower grades and girls higher grades when their gender is evident; anonymous grading greatly reduces the gender gap in primary and secondary school.


Do you have a link to a study etc? V interested


For example,

https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents...

https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss/v48y2013i1p236-264.html

(Not the exact studies I remember seeing.)

It's a common finding and one of the rare effects in the social sciences that are very reproducible.


Wow, didn't not know this. I need get my son into private school that doesn't do that asap.


God we need data in education.


A somewhat related study regarding gender biases in education released a few days ago:

https://news.yahoo.com/study-teacher-observations-biased-aga...

(The actual study is available at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/brendanbartanen/files/2021/10/gris... )

Black teachers and male teachers are rated lower during teacher observations than white teachers and female teachers, despite comparable or better outcomes for their students in test scores and student attendance.

Interestingly, the bias against male teachers is around twice the bias against Black teachers.




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