Analysis Of Claude Steele s Influence On Minority Students

Claude Steele is a social psychologist with a focused interest in self-affirmation theory and its role in self-regulation and the academic under-achievement of minority students and women. Steele explained the academic under achievement of minority students with stereotype threat which is when racial and gender stereotypes can affect minority and womens grades, test scores, and academic identity.(Lasnier, 2009).For many years’ stereotype threat has affected minority students learning making it hard to focus on school because of their environment putting stereotypes in their heads such as already having in your mind that â€Å"men are better than women in sciences (Gorlick, 2009) or â€Å"I’m black I’m not going to graduate anyway so why even try on†¦show more content†¦Besides Steele being a professor, dean and provost he has always won multiple awards and in the 1980’s made the self-affirmation theory well-known by relating that theory to self -regulation and shined a light on stereotype threat making it relevant and known that minorities suffer from it to America today.(Public Affairs, n.d.) Scholarly Work For over fifth teen years social psychologist has done research on how minorities intelligence has been affected by the stereotype threat theory(Jean-Claude Croizet et al., 2004; Lovaglia J, 2004). Stereotyping can be defined in many ways the first being â€Å"A destructive human habit that judges people before knowing their true qualities according to Worley(Worley, 2010). Or when one makes false assumptions on a group based off of their religion, race sexual orientation, disabled, language or educational opportunities(Worley, 2010). Stereotype threat disrupts three ways the first being a physiological stress response that directly impairs prefrontal processing, the second being a tendency to actively monitor performance, and finally the third being efforts to suppress negative thoughts and emotions in the service of self-regulation(Schmader, Johns, Forbes, 2008). All three of these are needed to do well on a standardized test. Stereotype threat affects African-American minority groups--African-Americans, Native Americans, and many Latino groups ( Bowen Bok, 1998; Jensen, 1980;Show MoreRelatedProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 PagesLeadership Chapter 2 Organization Strategy and Project Selection 1.4 Projects and programs (.2) 1.4.1 Managing the portfolio 1.4.3 Strategy and projects 2.3 Stakeholders and review boards 12.1 RFP’s and vendor selection (.3.4.5) 11.2.2.6 SWAT analysis 6.5.2.7 Schedule compression 9.4.2.5 Leadership skills G.1 Project leadership 10.1 Stakeholder management Chapter 11 Teams Chapter 3 Organization: Structure and Culture 2.4.1 Organization cultures [G.7] 2.4.2 Organization structure