In an experiment (Rubovits & Maehr, 1973), white female undergraduates enrolled

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In an experiment (Rubovits & Maehr, 1973), white female undergraduates enrolled in a teacher-training course were asked to prepare a lesson for four seventh-grade students. The teachers were given information about each of the students. For half of the teachers, one student was described as “gifted” (that is, extremely intelligent) while for the other half of the teachers, the student was described as “non-gifted” (or of average intelligence). This student was either black or white. The teachers were then observed during a 40-minute period in which they interacted with the target student and three other students. The number of interactions directed toward the target students was noted, and this served as an index of how much attention the teacher gave to the student. Hypothetical data representative of the results of this experiment are presented below.

Intelligence
Race Gifted Non-gifted
Black 30 30
29 29
30 28
31 30
32 28
White 36 29
36 32
36 31
35 30
36 33

Did race or intelligence have any effect on teacher behavior? Was there an interaction between the two? Use a < .05.

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