Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session T07: Stereotype Threat: What is it, and what to do about it?Diversity Education Invited
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Sponsoring Units: FEd Chair: Benjamin Dreyfus, George Mason University Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16 |
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
T07.00001: Building more inclusive educational environments in physics: understanding and addressing social-psychological factors to support learners Invited Speaker: Noah D. Finkelstein While physics education research efforts have made great strides in developing programs and activities that enhance students’ mastery of physics concepts and practices, we are now beginning to attend more systematically to the study and development of identities and inclusion in physics. In studies designed to document and address the dramatic differences in participation and performance of women in college physics, we document a variety of gender gaps: participation, performance and expectations of learning. In studies of participation, we find sense belonging to play an essential role for women in our early undergraduate courses; in performance measures, we find social-psychological factors to differentially impact outcomes for men and women. We present studies of interventions that address both participation and performance, and recommendations for more inclusive educational practices. Time permitting, we will examine models for systemic change to create more inclusive environments. |
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
T07.00002: An introduction to social psychological research on stereotype threat: When and how STEM outcomes among minority students are diminished by stereotypes about their group Invited Speaker: Denise Sekaquaptewa A large and growing research literature in the social sciences has documented the impact of stereotyping and bias on women and underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities (URMs) in STEM. Research on stereotype threat has shown that members of groups stereotyped as poor performers in math-intensive domains, including White women and URMs, actually have more negative STEM outcomes (e.g., performance and motivation) when they become aware of that others hold these negative stereotypes about their group, and they may be judged according to these stereotypes. When the relevance of the stereotype can be reduced in the testing situation, these negative outcomes are reduced, producing a more equitable and inclusive STEM environment for all. In this talk, I will provide an overview of social psychological research findings on stereotype threat, showing when and for whom this threat diminishes STEM outcomes, and how we might reduce these negative effects through effective interventions. |
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
T07.00003: Gendered performance in introductory STEM courses Invited Speaker: Timothy Alexander McKay Grades provide students with their primary performance feedback: signals which affect academic choices. Variations in grading practice among courses impose grade penalties (and bonuses) on students who take them. These grade penalties are sometimes gendered. Using extensive data from the University of Michigan, we report on patterns of grade penalty and gendered performance difference across 116 large courses. We find that significant gendered performance differences are ubiquitous in large introductory STEM lecture courses. They are largely absent in both STEM labs and in lecture courses in other disciplines. Exploring the features of these courses, we hypothesize that evaluation methods used in STEM lecture courses interact with stereotype threat to create these gendered performance differences. |
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