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Discrimination against Students with Foreign Backgrounds: Evidence from Grading in Swedish Public High Schools
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Hinnerich, Bjorn Tyrefors; Höglin, Erik; Johannesson, Magnus – Education Economics, 2015
We rigorously test for discrimination against students with foreign backgrounds in high school grading in Sweden. We analyse a random sample of national tests in the Swedish language graded both non-blindly by the student's own teacher and blindly without any identifying information. The increase in the test score due to non-blind grading is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, High Schools, Educational Discrimination