Academic Performance of Immigrant Students and Teachers’ Expectations

Abstract This study focuses on whether teachers’ thinking is prophetic, that is, whether these attitudes and actions permeate the students and condition their academic performance. To this end, we analyzed the beliefs of 167 teachers of Early Childhood, Elementary and High School Education in the province of Córdoba (Spain). A questionnaire was used to know the relationship between teachers’ beliefs about immigrant students and their possible influence on academic achievements. In the first place, the findings show the teachers’ lack of confidence in non-native students, a phenomenon that is largely unconscious; in the second place, lower school results in these students in relation to natives; and, finally, an external attributional style in teachers, for whom the families and the organizational resources of the school institution, not them, are the determining factors of school achievement.

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Main Authors: García-Fernández,Cristina María, García-Segura,Sonia, Gil-del-Pino,Maria del Carmen
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia 2021
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-863X2021000100407
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