Chances Are? Teacher-Student Racial Matching as a Predictor for Enhancing Student Civic Opportunities and Civic Performance Outcomes

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Abstract

The proposed paper uses an ordinal logistic regression model to assess whether teacher race and the racial composition of their school increases the teacher’s probability of providing students with access to specific civics-oriented curricula and instructional approaches and whether this probability correlates to higher civic performance outcomes. Using 2018 NAEP-Civics data, we examined teacher and student responses and student civic mean scores, emphasizing Black teachers and the Black racial composition of sampled schools. Findings indicate that Black teachers in schools with higher percentages of Black students had a higher probability of incorporating debate, discussion, role play, and primary source instructional approaches compared to their Black peers in schools with medium (31-50 %) to lower (≤30%) percentages of Black students.

Authors

• Chrystal S. Johnson, Purdue University

• Chenchen Lu, Purdue University