• DOI:10.1126/science.1195996
Corpus ID: 3156491

Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation

@article{Miyake2010ReducingTG,
  title={Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation},
  author={A. Miyake and Lauren E. Kost-Smith and N. Finkelstein and S. Pollock and Geoffrey L. Cohen and T. Ito},
  journal={Science},
  year={2010},
  volume={330},
  pages={1234 - 1237}
}

• A. Miyake, Lauren E. Kost-Smith, +3 authors T. Ito
• Published 2010
• Psychology, Political Science, Medicine
• Science

Writing to Close Gaps Some have questioned whether findings in the laboratory obtained under controlled conditions and limited contexts bear any relevance to behavior in real-world environments in which ordinary people cope with real-life challenges. Recent studies have shown a replicable and long-term effect of a brief writing exercise on the academic performance of African-American seventh graders in an inner-city public school. Miyake et al. (p. 1234) extended this approach to show that a… Expand

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