article_snippet.sent: A study by researchers at Stanford University examined the reaction of secondary and primary school teachers in the United States to student race.
article_snippet.sent: In their study, which is published in the journal Psychological Science, Professor Eberhardt and her colleagues presented teachers with fictional school records.
article_snippet.sent: fictional school records described two instances of misbehaviour by a student.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records were asked about teachers with fictional school records perception of the severity, how irritated that misbehaviour would make teachers with fictional school records and how a student should be punished.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records were also asked whether teachers with fictional school records saw a student as a troublemaker and if teachers with fictional school records could imagine teachers with fictional school records suspending that pupil in the future.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records randomly assigned names to the student records, in some cases suggesting a student was black with names like Deshawn or Darnell and in others suggesting teachers with fictional school records were white with names like Greg or Jake.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records found that racial stereotypes had little impact on teachers with fictional school records views of the pupils after one infraction.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records examined the views of both primary and secondary school teachers to see if teachers with fictional school records opinions of fictional pupils were altered by racial stereotypes and found fictional pupils tended to judge black students more harshly .
article_snippet.sent: The race of the teachers who took part in the study was not immediately clear, but Mail Online has contacted teachers with fictional school records for more information.
article_snippet.sent: teachers with fictional school records suggest that psychological interventions could be used to help change the stereotypes of black students influencing the way teachers treat pupils.