Educational Psychology / Unit 12 EDP 1149 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stereotype Threat, Contested
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The idea
Stereotype threat, described by Steele and Aronson in 1995, is the idea that awareness of a negative stereotype about one's group can lower test performance.
In practice
A later meta-analysis found a small average effect and several signs of publication bias.
Where people slip
Teach the finding and the debate over its size and robustness together.
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