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Testing and Racial Bias
- Organization: Frontline
- Date Created: Friday, January 26, 2007
- Submitted: Friday, January 26, 2007
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This interview with Stanford psycologist Claude Steele exposes one of the ways in which standardized tests, such as the SAT can be dramatically biased against minority students.
Steele discusses a phenomenon called sterotype threat, by which extra pressure is put on high acheivers in populations with negative acheivement stereotypes. The result is that without intention, and even on a "race neutral" test, minorities don't perform to their own full potential.
Steele discusses a phenomenon called sterotype threat, by which extra pressure is put on high acheivers in populations with negative acheivement stereotypes. The result is that without intention, and even on a "race neutral" test, minorities don't perform to their own full potential.
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