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10 pages in length. The writer discusses how African-Americans and other minorities often experience a sense of inadequacy when placed within socially restrictive circumstances, such as those indicative of stereotype vulnerability and high-stakes testing, thereby significantly hampering their ability to work beyond the psychological hindrance toward, for example, a more realistic test result. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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of stereotype vulnerability and high-stakes testing, thereby significantly hampering their ability to work beyond the psychological hindrance toward, for example, a more realistic test result (Jencks et al, 1998).
II. HYPOTHESIS What lies at the crux of stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations perceive themselves as being subordinate to
their white counterparts. The hypothesis seeks to prove how this perceived image in the testing arena, where individuals are forced to perform at a certain level expectant to their
social status, punctuates this skewed perception. "Conditions designed to make black subjects stereotype vulnerable depressed their performance relative to white subjects. Conditions designed to alleviate this vulnerability improved
blacks performance, completely equating the two groups.... Thus, in addition to whatever environmental or genetic influences on the skills that a person brings to the testing situation, the present research
shows that the situation itself is not neutral-not even when the tester is the same race as the test-taker and shares his or her dialect. It is a microcosm of
the individuals predicament in the larger society; the same stereotypes that make them vulnerable there have the power to threaten them and undermine their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele
et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to employ qualitative research methodology, which explores an area, collects data
through observations and interviews with people and ultimately generates hypotheses. Working in the opposite direction as the quantitative research, this method requires researcher to first explore the geographic location
collecting the data through interviews and observation, and then develop a hypothesis based upon that data. The validity of such research can be tested by asking questions such as
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