Minority teachers have lower observation scores than white teachers but no significant differences on value added¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: tool and model accuracy changes quickly
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q3 i? Minority teachers' observation scores were lower than white teachers' on average, but a large proportion of this difference is due to the relationship between observation scores and school characteristics, and there were no significant differences by race/ethnicity on value-added scores. → Jiang 2016
Evidence¶
Jiang 2016¶
Jiang, J. Y., & Sporte, S. E. (2016). Teacher Evaluation in Chicago: Differences in Observation and Value-Added Scores by Teacher, Student, and School Characteristics. UChicago Consortium on School Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED562786
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Analysis of 2013-14 REACH scores by teacher race/ethnicity, adjusted for the schools teachers work in. The report attributes the observation-score gap largely to school-level poverty, as minority teachers are overrepresented in the highest-poverty schools.
"There were no significant differences by teacher race/ethnicity on either reading or math value-added scores."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Related Claims¶
- Male teachers have lower observation and value-added scores than female teachers — related
- Minority teachers' lower observation scores are largely attributable to school characteristics, and no race/ethnicity differences appear on value-added scores — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Observation scores have a stronger relationship with school poverty than value-added scores — related
- Observation scores have a stronger relationship with school characteristics such as poverty than value-added scores — related
- Understandings of valued thinking have been dominated by the voices of White, predominantly male scholars — related
- Teachers with the lowest value-added and observation scores are overrepresented in schools serving the most disadvantaged students — related
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Minority teachers have lower observation scores than white teachers but no significant differences on value added |
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Minority teachers have lower observation scores than white teachers but no significant differences on value added |
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2016 |
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2026-10-20 |
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2019 |
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