Teachers not labeling students
Overview
- Influence: Teachers not labeling students
- Domain: Teacher
- Sub-Domain: Teacher attributes
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Consider two students of the same personality, behavior, or aptitude; label one (e.g., Asperger's, naughty, struggling) and not the others. This research investigates the effects of these labels. Labeling can lead to effective intervention and/or could lead to discrimination or exclusion.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 1
- Number of studies: 79
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 79
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.61
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
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Book | Fuchs, Fuchs, Mathes, Lipsey, & Roberts | USA | Is "Learning Disabilities" Just a Fancy Term for Low Achievement? A Meta-Analysis of Reading Differences Between Low Achievers with and without the Label | 2002 | Low achieving non-disabled students vs. learning disabled in reading | 79 | 0 | 79 | 0.61 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 79 | 0 | 79 | 0.61 |