Focusing Heterogeneity: The Influence of Teachers' Attitudes on the Development of Migrant Students' Aspirations

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Abstract

This paper focuses on teacher expectations concerning the achievement of students and their implicit prejudices towards students having migration backgrounds. This replication study uses the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and surveys of 60 teachers at 11 schools (cross sectional) and 579 students (longitudinal data) and asks: (1) How do implicit prejudices of teachers regarding students with migration background refer to their explicit judgements? (2) How do the educational aspirations of students who had teachers with strong implicit prejudices against them develop in Secondary I? Results show that only 6% of the 60 teachers surveyed can be classified as “unbiased”; connections between implicit biases and explicit judgements occur and biases of teachers have an explanatory value for their students' aspirations.

Authors

• Corinna Geppert, University of Nottingham

• Tamara Katschnig, University of Vienna