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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Black-White Test Score Gap"”.
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Blackademically Speaking: Black Voices Speak Relative to Black Student Achievement in a Predominately White, Public School District
The National debate on the Black-white test score gap or the achievement gap has garnered much attention. In lieu of this, is the reality of emerging literature highlighting varying communities successfully educating Black students exclusive of school districts that arguably fail Black students. …
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Investigating Stereotype Threat as a Source of Black/White Differential Item Functioning
The Black White test score gap has been a historical concern in educational policy issues. The need for a more refined understanding of the causes and circumstances surrounding these differences is vital. Drawing from Claude Steele's social-psychological theory on stereotype threat and its role in …
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An Examination of the Difference in Reading and Mathematics Achievement between Black and White Students in 1st, 3rd, and 5th Grades and its Relationship to Family, School, and Classroom Variables
White students typically score higher on average than Black students on reading and mathematics tests and this gap appears to grow larger as students get older. This study used data from the national Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) to follow about 7,400 students from 1st to 3rd to 5th …
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Three Essays on Family Economics and Early Childhood Development
… effects on both children's math and reading test scores. The time inputs vary across parents' age, race, and eduction levels. In chapter three, we conduct a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to evaluate the role of home inputs in the black-white test score gaps based on the empirical …