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Microlesson - Matthew Effect and Educational Disparity<\/h2>\n\n
In this microlesson, we will learn about the social phenomenon known as the Matthew Effect and how it presents itself in the field of education. <\/p>\n\n
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5 min video by Dr. Keith Stanovich, and,<\/li>\n\t
a postive example by Jump Math <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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It is a social phenomenon that is often linked to the idea that 'the rich get richer and poor get poorer.' Sociologist Richard C. Merton and his wife, Harriet Zuckerman are credited with creating the term \"Matthew Effect\" in the scientific community in 1968. Later, Keith Stanovich, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, who has done extensive research on reading and language disabilities, applied it to education and more specifically, reading. <\/p>\n\n
It essentially describes what happens to young children when we see the educational disparities that occur. <\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"61d1e386-05e7-4bac-b38a-9c4a1d54c987"},"title":"What is the Matthew Effect?"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
According to Stanovich, the Matthew Effect describes what happens over time when some children enter into a positive feedback loop<\/strong>.<\/span> This means, those children who learn to read and break the code with relative ease <\/strong>experience a positive affect and are able to read the text that they are given in school with fluency.<\/strong> This fluency develops a level of automaticity<\/strong> with sounds and words and hence these children have more cognitive space to learn and they continue to read more and learn more and the cycle usually continues. <\/p>\n\n
On the other hand, the children who experience inordinate difficulty in breaking the code, i.e. they are not able to quickly assemble sounds and words, they don't develop fluency<\/strong> and hence automaticity that allows them to have freed up cognitive space needed for further learning. As a result of this lack of automaticity<\/strong>, their resources are taken away and they remain focussed on the word level and aren't able to decode the meaning<\/strong>. They feel discouraged and find reading not pleasurable. This way they enter into a negative feedback loop<\/span><\/strong>. This gets further compounded by the fact these children continue to receive reading material beyond their reading ability. And so the cycle gets worse and worse. Hence the Matthew Effect takes place<\/strong> - rich gets richer, poor gets poorer. <\/p>\n\n
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Dr. Stanovich explains the Matthew Effect<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"b1ed81c4-ff5e-485c-8b9d-53c57db574f2"},"useSeparator":"auto"},{"content":{"params":{"visuals":{"fit":false,"controls":true},"playback":{"autoplay":false,"loop":false},"l10n":{"name":"Video","loading":"Video player loading...","noPlayers":"Found no video players that supports the given video format.","noSources":"Video source is missing.","aborted":"Media playback has been aborted.","networkFailure":"Network failure.","cannotDecode":"Unable to decode media.","formatNotSupported":"Video format not supported.","mediaEncrypted":"Media encrypted.","unknownError":"Unknown error.","invalidYtId":"Invalid YouTube ID.","unknownYtId":"Unable to find video with the given YouTube ID.","restrictedYt":"The owner of this video does not allow it to be embedded."},"sources":[{"path":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lF6VKmMVWEc","mime":"video\/YouTube","copyright":{"license":"U"}}]},"library":"H5P.Video 1.6","metadata":{"contentType":"Video","license":"U","title":"Dr. Stanovich explains the Matthew Effect"},"subContentId":"52a880a1-99c1-4619-a4e5-b6c5c7021356"},"useSeparator":"auto"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
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Sadly, Matthew Effect is not just about reading disparity, it is prevalent across the entire field of education and as educators and researchers we need to find ways to shorten this gap between the rich and poor. <\/p>\n\n
Jump Math<\/strong><\/a> is an example of how the impact of Matthew Effect can be minimized. Great article below. <\/p>\n\n
Transforming more than just math skills in Toronto's priority neighbourhoods<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"7acd2040-e2ab-4142-afc4-fa9ea583b0a9"},"useSeparator":"auto"}]}