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Rozek, Christopher S.; Hanselman, Paul; Feldman, Rachel C.; Quast, Erin A.; Crawford, Evan P.; Borman, Geoffrey D. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Steele and Aronson (1995) hypothesized that underperformance in academics by minority students might be partially due to a newly identified phenomenon: "stereotype threat." Stereotype threat is defined as the anxiety or fear that an individual might experience because of the negative stereotypes about a group associated with that…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Stereotypes