Podcast appearances and mentions of Claude M Steele

Have you ever felt frustrated that your test scores don't adequately reflect your knowledge and abilities? Have you ever looked around an exam room and felt nervous because nobody else looks like you? If so, you probably experienced something called “stereotype threat”. This term was developed by psychology researchers who were trying to understand why black and Latinx students get lower grades on average in college compared to their white classmates, and why women tend to do worse in subjects like math and engineering than males. They found that students can face a lot of internal pressure to disprove negative stereotypes about their group (such as the stereotype that women are bad at math), and this internal pressure can affect how their brains function during a test, leading to lower test scores. In this episode, we review many examples of stereotype threat at work, discuss our own experiences facing it, and explore some strategies that can help you combat it. We highly recommend reading the book, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us And What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele to learn more about this fascinating topic.

Claude M. Steele is an American social psychologist, a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and author of Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us. In this episode of How Do You Do? Podcast, Ben asks Dr. Steele to break down his research on stereotype threat, share how he comes up with experiments, offer solutions for how individuals and organizations can combat the pressure that comes with the stereotypes we face, and more. Follow us! Claude Steele: ClaudeSteele.com ( //claudesteele.com ) How Do You Do? Podcast: @hdydpod ( https://www.instagram.com/hdydpod/ ) Ben: @benhannani ( https://www.instagram.com/benhannani/ ) Website: www.hdydpod.com ( https://www.hdydpod.com/ ) Our guests' jams can be found on the "HDYD Jams" playlist ( https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tBdUz3kXb1T5im2CzSBUV?si=qc_DgVSCR1W65phsuv6vVQ ) on Spotify!

Laurie & Matt center this episode around the essential question, "What is Stereotype Threat?" Pulling from Claude M. Steele's book Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, the very real and damaging cancer that is stereotype threat is discussed. Described as a diffuse threat, like a snake loose in the room, stereotype threat menaces any member of a minority when they are in a position to potentially confirm a negative stereotype through one false move or misstep. Originally observed and studied in minority groups' under performance in school, stereotype threat is found to reach into every corner of society. As is always their aim, Laurie & Matt want to make sure that discussions turn into action. To that end, they offer evidence-based solutions for mitigating the affects of stereotype threat in schools, including: 1. Growth mindset lessons- helping minority students understand that intelligence is malleable 2. Self-affirmation exercises- brief writing assignments about personally held values 3. Increasing minority group representation 4. Valuing diversity 5. Being a "warm demander," increasing teacher credibility, and adopting an autonomy supportive teaching style Episode #19 of Teacher Saves World!, titled "What Are the Most Important Teacher Qualities?" goes into greater detail with #5 in the list of interventions above. The essential question conversation is book ended by Laurie's idea for lots of murals in the "If I Were Principal" opening segment, and Matt's admiration for the new generation of gadflys in the closing "That's the Beauty of it All." Show music provided by Brian Karmelich and VirtualCampfire.net. For more details, visit TeacherSavesWorld.com, and connect with Laurie & Matt on twitter, facebook, and instagram by searching for Teacher Saves World!

Is there a right or wrong way to learn? Dr. Stephen Kosslyn is an expert on the science of learning, with more than 30 years of experience working at elite institutions such as Harvard and Stanford. He also thinks that higher education could learn a lot about how people learn, and that's why he became the Founding Dean and Chief Learning Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI. On this podcast, Dr. Kosslyn explains how people learn and how his institution is changing the way learning is approached — one student at a time.  More reading from Curiosity: Learn Anything In Four Steps With The Feynman Technique University of Miami Has A Field of Study's First Academic Chair Why Aren't Plants Black? Resources from Dr. Stephen Kosslyn: Minerva Schools at KGI "Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education" "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses" Studies and research discussed: Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics | 2014 study Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses | Inside Higher Ed Tutors See Stereotypes and Gender Bias in SAT. Testers See None of the Above. | New York Times New Evidence of Racial Bias on SAT | Inside Higher Ed Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans | Claude M. Steele. Stanford University, 1995 Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance | Margaret Shih, Todd L. Pittinsky, Nalini Ambady, 1999 Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators | National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine "Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain" "Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.