Cultural Competence, Implicit Racial Bias, and its Impacts on Subjective Discipline Decisions in Education

Abstract

The current study’s goal was to explore how individual levels of cultural competence and levels of implicit racial bias may impact the decision of teachers when faced with a subjective discipline decision. A series of hierarchical regression analysis, and descriptive and correlational analysis was used to tests the hypotheses. Keywords: implicit, bias, cultural competence, decision-making, education, subjective discipline