Claude Steele


 

"A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance"

 

Abstract

Uses a general theory of domain identification to describe achievement barriers faced by women in advanced quantitative areas and African Americans in school. Research with approximately 250 African American college students and standardized test scores show the effects of stereotype threat on the achievement of these groups.

 

Steele (1997).pdf

 

 

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