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Stereotype Threat

Stereotype Threat . The risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s group as self characteristic. Steele, 1999. People can be classified into many different groups. Age Gender Religion Race/Ethnicity. Childs, 1990.

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Stereotype Threat

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  1. Stereotype Threat The risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s group as self characteristic. Steele, 1999

  2. People can be classified into many different groups. • Age • Gender • Religion • Race/Ethnicity Childs, 1990

  3. As an individual is constantly exposed to negative images of his/her social group such as race or ethnicity, this person begins to internalize the same social and personal characteristics of these images Steele, 1999

  4. A Class Divided • In 1970, third-grade teacher, Jane Elliot, gave her class a lesson on discrimination. • On Tuesday, she gave the blue-eyed children privileges and told them they were superior to the brown-eyed students • On Wednesday, she made the brown-eyed children the superior group.

  5. A Class Divided • Jane Elliot performed the same exercise the following year. • This time, she gave the students a spelling test 2 weeks before the experiment, the two days of the experiment, and 2 weeks after the experiment.

  6. A Class Divided • The children improved their original scores on the day they were superior, and their scores decreased on the day they were inferior to the other children. • The scores following the discrimination exercise were all improved from the original scores

  7. Bias Testing • Priming leads to significant differences in test scores • Test questions can play upon stereotypes Childs, 1990

  8. Biased testing • Material or references that may be offensive to members of one group • References to objects and ideas that are likely to be more familiar to one group more than another • Unequal representation of a group as actors in test items or representation of members of each group only in stereotyped roles Childs, 1990

  9. References • Steele, C. (1999). Thin Ice: “Stereotype Threat” and black college students. The Atlantic Monthly, 44-47, 52-54 • Childs, R. (1990). Gender bias and Fairness. ERIC Digest, 12, 1-4

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