Educational Psychology / Unit 9 EDP 0822 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tendencies, Not Predictions
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The idea
Every group difference in this unit, by gender, culture or class, describes an average tendency; within each group, individual variation is wide, so group membership predicts little about any one student.
In practice
Knowing a student is a girl, bilingual or low-income tells a teacher little about what that student can do.
Where people slip
Group categories are convenient but arbitrary.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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