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JANUARY 2008

NYU Steinhardt Launches Policy Series on Gender and Education

NYU Steinhardt recently launched a three part policy breakfast series devoted to gender  and education and exploring the implications  for policy and practice. The first breakfast, “Do  Gender Differences in Academic Achievement  Really Exist,” brought together Marcia C. Linn,  professor of development and cognition in the  Graduate School of Education at the University  of California, Berkeley, where she directs the  NSF-funded Technology-enhanced Learning in  Science (TELS) center, and Joshua Aronson,  associate professor of applied psychology at  NYU Steinhardt who has studied stereotypes,  self-esteem, motivation, and attitudes for the past  12 years. Following an introduction by Steinhardt  Dean Mary Brabeck, who cited the reemergence  of the belief in significant statistical differences  in how the different genders learn, Linn walked  the audience of policymakers, researchers, and  educators through current research, which shows  few, if any, differences in achievement attributable  to gender. Aronson complemented Linn’s  presentation with a discussion of his own study  of stereotype threat, which he and others have  identified as the psychological discomfort that  arises in a testing situation when an individual of  a particular minority group becomes aware that  his or her performance on the test may confirm  an established negative reputation for that group.  His research shows that performance is heavily  influenced by “mindset,” which speaks against  the idea that there are substantial differences in  intelligence or problem solving that can be attributed  to gender. #

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