Do biases affect assessment in kindergarten? Educators discuss strategies for mitigation

Educators in a study agreed that the scarcity of dedicated resources, time, attention and training on bias affected their ability to assess their students’ development as accurately as they would like. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency/EDUimages), CC BY-NC-SA

Teachers’ perceptions and judgments of student skills are key to measuring children’s academic progress. But educators’ own biases can distort these perceptions and judgments.