Teachers labeling students
Overview
- Influence: Teachers labeling students
- Domain: Teacher
- Sub-Domain: Teacher attributes
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
- 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. (Note, this is not implying that these diagnoses are necessarily incorrect.)
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 139
- Number of students: 8,295
- Number of effects: 363
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.53
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Fuchs, Fuchs, Mathes, Lipsey, & Roberts | 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 | NA | 79 | -0.61 | |
| Educational Psychology Review | Franz, Richter, Lenhard, Marx, Stein, & Ratz | The influence of diagnostic labels on the evaluation of students: A multilevel meta-analysis. | 2023 | Labeling students | 60 | 8,295 | 284 | -0.42 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 139 | 8,295 | 363 | -0.51 | |||||