Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Achievement gaps may reflect the cognitive impairment thought to occur in evaluative settings (e.g., classrooms) where a stereotyped identity is salient (i.e., stereotype threat). This study presents an economic model of stereotype threat that reconciles prior evidence on how student effort and performance are influenced by this social-identity phenomenon. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were randomly assigned to a treatment that primed their awareness of a stereotyped identity (i.e., student-athlete). This social-identity manipulation reduced the test-score performance of athletes relative to non-athletes by 12 percent. These negative performance effects were concentrated among male student-athletes who also responded to the social-identity manipulation by attempting to answer more questions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | November 2012 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dee, Thomas S. |
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Subjects
| Subject | Center for Educational Policy Analysis |
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| Subject | social identity |
| Subject | stereotype threat |
| Subject | education |
| Subject | athletics |
| Genre | Working paper |
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