Aggregating survey experiment data on teacher perceptions of top-performing students as peer role models. The study examines how profiles varying by student gender and field of study (STEM or Non-STEM) influence teacher judgments of role model influence, learning autonomy, and example-setting qualities. It includes findings such as a statistically significant effect (beta=0.289; p<0.001) indicating teachers perceive top-performing girls as more influential.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between student gender and teacher-perceived role model influence to quantify gender bias in perceptions.
- Investigate how teacher perceptions of a student's sense of learning autonomy differ between STEM and Non-STEM field profiles.
- Examine whether teacher characteristics like having children or teaching in urban areas moderate the association between student gender and perceived example-setting qualities.
- Model the effect of the randomly assigned profile attributes (gender, field of study) on the composite outcome of teacher judgments.
Strengths
- Data is derived from a randomized online survey-based experiment, allowing for causal inference on profile attributes.
- Findings are supported by specific statistical results, such as a beta coefficient of 0.289 with p<0.001 for the main gender effect.
- Analysis incorporates teacher demographic variables like parental status and urban/rural location to examine effect heterogeneity.
- Context is supplemented with administrative data from a representative sample on student educational outcomes.
Limitations
- The dataset is based on teacher perceptions from a survey experiment, not on observed student outcomes or behaviors.
- Sample size and demographic representativeness of the teacher respondents are not specified in the provided input.
- The specific columns, rows, and raw data structure are unknown, limiting detailed reproducibility checks.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Online survey-based experiment where teachers were randomly exposed to profiles of top-performing students.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
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