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Daisy Nichols
Drexel University
Email: dn495@drexel.edu

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The problem is that Black and Brown students, nationwide, are still being suspended at a higher rate than White students. For instance, 50% of the student body is White and account for 7% of discipline versus the combined 32% of Black and Brown students contributing to 29% of discipline.

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We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it? | Dushaw Hockett | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon

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Implicit Bias

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Quasi-experimental design/Quantitative
-Intervention-training
-Independent variable-Implicit Bias training
-Dependent variable-classroom referrals

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This research will evaluate the effectiveness of implicit bias training, for teachers, and its impact on discipline data.
Does the data show that it is worth the time, energy and resources to facilitate these types of training for teachers.

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1. Implicit bias and how it is measured
-Dual process theory
-The need for implicit bias
-Measurements of implicit bias
2. Connection to the Classroom
-Subjective vs. Objective Behaviors
-Vulnerable Decision Points
-Findings in disproportionate discipline data
3. Implicit bias in other professions
-Law enforcement
-Healthcare

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1. Data mining-referral data before and after the implicit bias training.
2. Surveys-To what extent are teachers aware of their own biases.
-Observations

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The purpose of this research is to determine if implicit bias training for teachers is making an impact on discipline.

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What does the discipline data show after teachers have received training on implicit bias.

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Pragmatic stance-practical rather than theoretical/problem solving
1. Ontology-multiple realities based on context and circumstances
2. Epistemology-Knowledge and world views are unique depending on a person's reality

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Black-of African American descent (DEVELOPING)

Brown-of Hispanic descent (DEVELOPING)

Exclusion-suspending and/or expelling students causing them to be out of the classroom and school

Bias-to show favor or to be against a person in an unfair manner
https://www.google.com/search?q=bias+definition&oq=bias

Implicit Bias-“Implicit bias: the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner” (Staats, 2016).

School to prison pipeline-school-to-prison link or the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track, is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to become incarcerated, because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline