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Claude Steele, Stanford Univ

"A theory of stereotype vulnerability and the school outcomes of women
and black Americans"

When women fail at math or when African-American and Latino students fail
at almost any academic task, the stereotypes of society pose the disturbing
interpretation that the failure reflects a gender of ethnicity-based 
inadequacy.  The central hypothesis of our research is that vulnerability
to stereotype-based judgments of this sort has been an underappreciated
cause of the school achievement problems faced by these groups.  Our 
experimental research examines the performance differences on
difficult standardized tests.  The results of this research suggest
that stereotype vulnerability is a major contributor to the differences
in standardized test performance between men and women in mathematics and 
between blacks and whites in all content areas.  Further research
shows that factors which alleviate this vulnerability can dramatically
improve the test performance and school achievement of these groups.

Thursday, November 3, 1994
4:15 PM
Northwestern University
Swift Hall 107
Reception to Follow

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----	Norman Eliaser <nme@nwu.edu>		                    	----
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