Improving adolescents' standardized test performance: An intervention to reduce the effects of stereotype threat
C Good, J Aronson, M Inzlicht - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2003 - Elsevier
Standardized tests continue to generate gender and race gaps in achievement despite
decades of national attention. Research on “stereotype threat”(Steele & Aronson, 1995)
suggests that these gaps may be partly due to stereotypes that impugn the math abilities of
females and the intellectual abilities of Black, Hispanic, and low-income students. A field
experiment was performed to test methods of helping female, minority, and low-income
adolescents overcome the anxiety-inducing effects of stereotype threat and, consequently …
decades of national attention. Research on “stereotype threat”(Steele & Aronson, 1995)
suggests that these gaps may be partly due to stereotypes that impugn the math abilities of
females and the intellectual abilities of Black, Hispanic, and low-income students. A field
experiment was performed to test methods of helping female, minority, and low-income
adolescents overcome the anxiety-inducing effects of stereotype threat and, consequently …