Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorder and Teachers’ Stereotypes – Effects on Teacher Judgments

Teacher judgments about student achievement may be biased by factors that go beyond students’ actual achievement. Emotional and behavioral disorder (EBD), which is characterized by behavioral problems yet unimpaired general cognitive abilities, may be one such biasing characteristic on student level. Moreover, bias may depend on characteristics at teacher level, such as teachers’ individual stereotypes about students with EBD. We conducted an...