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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
