Concerns About Generalizing Stereotype Threat Research Findings to Operational High-stakes Testing

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sackett, Paul R ^a   Ryan, Ann Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Black white test score gap; Intervention; Male female science gap; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921768081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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