School Improvement Leadership: Institutional Bias

Question 1

Definition of institutional bias:

Answer 1

refers to discrimination or unjust treatment of an individual or group by an organization or entity like a government, company, or school system.

Question 2

In many cases, biases may be codified into an entity’s policies, laws, objectives and operating procedures, and may go ______ because they have been accepted as the status quo.

Answer 2

unnoticed

Question 3

Discrimination example: teaching and testing for those who hear, but a student is deaf

Answer 3

teaching and testing for those who hear, but a student is deaf

Question 4

Racism example:

Answer 4

use of standardized testing because some favors one race over another – no IQ tests in CA

Question 5

Stereotype example:

Answer 5

signing up girls for home economics and boys for woodshop

Question 6

Privilege or class bias example:

Answer 6

let football team pick classes first

Question 7

Gender or sex bias example:

Answer 7

if allow a heterosexual to bring a date to the prom, then you must also allow a homosexual to bring a date to the prom