Students in the lowest secondary school track report higher awareness of negative school-track-related stereotypes than students in higher or combined tracks across Grades 5–8¶

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Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Lowest-track students reported significantly higher stereotype awareness in all four waves than higher- and combined-track students, and combined-track students reported higher levels than higher-track students. → Lisa Bardach 2023

Evidence¶

Lisa Bardach 2023¶

Lisa Bardach, Claudia Neuendorf, Kou Murayama, Thorsten Fahrbach, Michel Knigge, Benjamin Nagengast, and Ulrich Trautwein. (2023). Does students' awareness of school-track-related stereotypes exacerbate inequalities in education? npj Science of Learning 8:59. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00203-9

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Latent mean comparisons across tracks in the 4-wave longitudinal TRAIN sample (N = 3880) showed significant track differences in stereotype awareness at every wave; the description rests on the printed result that "students from the lowest track reported significantly higher levels of stereotype awareness in all waves".

"students from the lowest track reported significantly higher levels of stereotype awareness in all waves than students from the higher and combined tracks (all ps < 0.001"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Stereotype awareness increased significantly in all three tracks over the 4-year period, by roughly one third of a standard deviation — related
• Track-related stereotypes exist among secondary students, but changes in stereotype awareness were not consistently related to changes in engagement, self-perceived ability, or achievement — related
• Initial stereotype awareness in Grade 5 was negatively related to initial school engagement in all three tracks — related