Abstract
This study explored an important but often neglected area of educational assessment - cultural differences in teachers' evaluations of diverse students. We examined how US teachers applied 13 themes of evaluation criteria in non–academic areas to students of four ethnicities in narrative evaluations in student report cards. Teachers' narrative evaluations of 565 elementary students were examined. Binary logistic regression was used to analyse the presence of teacher references across the 13 themes in their narrative evaluations of students. The effect of ethnicity was examined after controlling for gender, family income, and academic performance. Compared to Caucasian students, significantly more Asian students received positive comments on carefulness; significantly more African American students received negative comments on social development and classroom behaviour. We found no significant differences in teachers' references by ethnicity on majority of the themes. The study calls for awareness of implicit cultural norms and their potential impact on student evaluation.
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