In this article, we present a new model of teachers' assessment competence. The model is
based on the educational competence concept, thus defining competences to be context …

Sorting students on the basis of their academic performance into hierarchically ordered
curriculums (ie, between-school tracking) is common practice in various educational …

Schools are heralded by some as unique sites for promoting racial equity. Central to this
characterization is the presumption that teachers embrace racial equity and teaching about …

Teacher judgments of student achievement are increasingly used for high-stakes decision-
making, making it imperative that judgments be as fair and reliable as possible. Using a …

Biases in pre-service teachers' evaluations of students' performance may arise due to
stereotypes (eg, the assumption that students with a migrant background have lower …

Differential treatment of students by race is well documented, and potentially driven by
implicit processes relating to racial prejudice. To better understand some of the pathways by …

Ethnic minority students face many disadvantages in school, which might be due in part to
teachers' stereotypical expectations and attitudes. Dual process theories of impression and …

Bias in track recommendations is an important mechanism, which causes education inequity
in a tracked educational system (streaming). If teacher biases in track recommendations …

Teachers' attitudes toward ethnic minority students might differ by students' gender and the
type of school teachers are working in because of different motivations for teaching and …

Even though social class is at least as predictive of educational achievement as ethnicity in
virtually all developed countries, experimental research on discrimination in education has …