On 5th of June, Katherin gave a talk titled How accurate are teacher perceptions of student academic attitudes, and do student social background and ethnicity matter? Evidence from England and Scotland at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRI) in Dublin, Ireland.
Katherin presented two studies from the BIPE project that used large-scale secondary data for England and Scotland – respectively the Millennium Cohort Study and Growing Up in Scotland – to investigate discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of student academic attitudes.
Both studies estimated such discrepancies using a residual method to then focus on whether socioeconomic or ethnic background of the students were systematically associated with larger or smaller discrepancies.
The first study explored to what extent discrepancies in teacher and student perceptions of student academic effort and enjoyment are linked to students’ socioeconomic background. The second study explored to what extent discrepancies in teacher and student perceptions of student misbehaviour in school are linked to students’ ethnic background and whether socioeconomic or ethnic school composition affect such link.
Slides from the workshop can be found on our ‘Teaching materials’ page.
