The implicit prejudiced attitudes of teachers: Relations to teacher expectations and the ethnic achievement gap

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 497-527

  van den Bergh, Linda ^a   Denessen, Eddie ^b   Hornstra, Lisette ^c   Voeten, Marinus ^b   Holland, Rob W ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Achievement gap; Attitude; Ethnicity; Interdisciplinary teaching and research; Teacher characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953706902     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831209353594     Document Type: Article

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