Poster #46 - Perception Versus Reality: Correlation Analysis, Teacher Judgment, and Student Performance

• In Event: 18.060 - MTCC Poster Session Two
  In Poster Session: 18.060-6 - A Survey of Surveys Used in Educational Research

Abstract

Educators play a critical role in student performance and teacher judgement may influence both their expectations of the student’s ability and the student’s perception of their own ability, per relevant research. Teacher judgment may influence a student’s future academic placement, underscoring the importance of exploring its relationship with student performance in mathematics in primary education as a potential impediment to the pipeline of students interested in STEM degrees. This research explores the longitudinal relationship between teacher judgment and student performance in mathematics and reading comprehension by grade level, as a function of student demographics, using correlation analyses and generalized linear models to analyze End-of-Grade (EOG) scores for 3rd to 8th grades from 2006-2013 in North Carolina, including 6,511,741 students.

Authors

• Sareh Meshkinfam, North Carolina State University

• Julie Ivy, North Carolina State University

• Amy Craig Reamer, North Carolina State University