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={Akira Miyake and Lauren E. Kost-Smith and Noah D. Finkelstein and Steven J Pollock and Geoffrey L. Cohen and Tiffany A Ito}, journal={Science}, year={2010}, volume={330}, pages={1234 - 1237} }
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…
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