Threats to At-Risk Students: Stereotype & The Belief in Fixed Intelligence

Some blog followers might be interested in a discussion list post “Threats to At-Risk Students: Stereotype & The Belief in Fixed Intelligence” [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads:

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On 30 May 2014, there were:

(1) three threads containing 33 posts on the POD archives at http://bit.ly/SjUBE9 concerning Leonard Geddes’ Learnwell Projects piece “Why Good Students Do ‘Bad’ in College” http://wp.me/p3GGxn-t; and

(2) one thread containing 15 posts on the PhysLrnR archives at http://bit.ly/SkeKKo concerning Paul Tough’s NYT piece “Who Gets to Graduate” http://nyti.ms/1nD3Z1E.

The above posts primarily concern two threats to at-risk students: (a) the “Stereotype Threat” – see Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do [Steele (2011)] http://amzn.to/1hhk1yc; and (b) what might be called “The Belief in Fixed Intelligence Threat” – see Mindset: The New Psychology of Success [Dweck (2007)] at http://amzn.to/1wzVqZA.

These two threats have been recently discussed in a Physics Today article “Psychological insights for improved physics teaching” [Aguilar, Walton, & Wieman (2014)] at http://stanford.io/1tXfxPc.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University; Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands; President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII); LINKS TO: Academia http://bit.ly/a8ixxm; Articles http://bit.ly/a6M5y0; Blog http://bit.ly/9yGsXh; Facebook http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm; GooglePlus http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE; Google Scholar http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3; Linked In http://linkd.in/14uycpW; Research Gate http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs http://bit.ly/9nGd3M; Twitter http://bit.ly/juvd52.

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Hake, R.R. 2014. “Threats to At-Risk Students: Stereotype & The Belief in Fixed Intelligence.” Post of 30 May 2014 20:13:16-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. Online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/1pFKkO6. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.