Abstract:Teachers represent a crucial dimension of social stratification in the school system. Their assessments of students matter by exerting short-term effects on students' motivation and achievement, but also by influencing students' educational prospects. Research shows that teachers' assessments are reasonably accurate. However, there is a residual component of inaccuracy emerging from individual -level factors (e.g., students' social or immigrant origin) as well as from classroom and school composition. In the p… Show more
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