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Peer reviewedStricker, Lawrence J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Personality Measures
Download full textStricker, Lawrence J.; Ward, William C. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Laboratory experiments by Steele and Aronson (1995) found that African-American subjects' performance on difficult verbal items, described as a verbal problem-solving task, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity just before working on the items. These results were attributed to stereotype threat. Asking about ethnicity…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving
Stricker, Lawrence J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Steele and Aronson (1995) found that the performance of African-American subjects on test items portrayed as a problem-solving task, in a laboratory experiment, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity. This outcome was attributed to "stereotype threat". Performance was disrupted by the subjects' concerns about…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving
