Teacher evaluation of student ability: What roles do teacher gender, student gender, and their interaction play?

Educational Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 244-257

  Krkovic, Katarina ^a   Greiff, Samuel ^a   Kupiainen, Sirkku ^b   Vainikainen, Mari Pauliina ^b   Hautamäki, Jarkko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

biased evaluation; education; gender bias; gender interaction; student gender; teacher gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899929018     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2014.898909     Document Type: Article

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