School deportment and student teacher sex and ethnicity

✍ Scribed by Jeremy J. Lietz

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 373 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(197701)14:1<72::aid-pits2310140115>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

The association between office referrals and the ethnicity and sex of 20 grade 1-6 teachers and 567 (323 black, 130 white, and 114 Spanish surnamed) students was studied for two years. White teachers reported dispro ortionatel more students and infractions, followed by Spanish surnamecf and blacE teachers. The distribution and frequency of reported infractions were associated with teacher and student ingroup rates, rather than differential teacher z student cross-group rates: (a) i.e., disproportionately more male then black students were reported and with greater frequency by teachers oi each sex and ethnicity, respectively; however, (b) teachers' referral frequencies were moderately higher for own-ethnic and other-sex students.

Despite evidence that discipline is an important concern among teachers of minority (Baughman & Dahlstrom, 1968;