Tobias, S., Zibrin, M., & Menell, C. (1983). Special Education referrals: Failure to replicate student–teacher ethnicity interaction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75(5), 705-707.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.75.5.705
Investigated the influence of student sex and ethnicity and teacher sex, ethnicity, and teaching level on referrals to special education. Responses of 320 teachers enrolled in graduate courses to a systematically varied protocol showed that recommendations were influenced by teacher ethnicity and teaching level but not by student sex or race. Also, teacher ethnicity and student sex showed significant interaction. Black and White teachers recommended more males, whereas Hispanics recommended more females for special education. Results fail to replicate an earlier study by S. Tobias et al (see record 1982-22036-001) who found an interaction between teacher and student race in which teachers recommended fewer students of their own background for special education. (2 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)