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Transparency Isn’t Spoon-Feeding: How a Transformative Approach to the Use of Explicit Assessment Criteria Can Support Student Self-Regulation
If little care is taken when establishing clear assessment requirements, there is the potential for spoon-feeding. However, in this conceptual article we argue that transparency in assessment is essential to providing equality of opportunity and promoting students’...
Stereotype Threat Widens Achievement Gap
Reminders of stereotyped inferiority hurt test scores. Read Article Here
Strategic Questioning Manual
In these days of constant change, and the need for even more change if we are to live peacefully in a healthy environment, we ask ourselves: "How can our organization weather the tides of constant reorganization and restructuring and still maintain a clear vision of...
A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students
Abstract: A brief intervention aimed at buttressing college freshmen’s sense of social belonging in school was tested in a randomized controlled trial (N = 92), and its academic and health-related consequences over 3 years are reported. The intervention aimed to...
‘Black Lives Matter’ Without Black People?
Racial justice demonstrations have intensified following the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man shot seven times in the back by a white police officer. This incident, which left Blake paralyzed, has revived national protests against anti-Black...
Looking Back on a Life of Unacknowledged Privilege and a Call to Action
Abstract: The year 2020 provided a wake-up call about the role systemic racism plays in shaping our nation and shaping science. While hard work and great mentors helped bring me a long way from a farm in Minnesota, it’s become much clearer that the privilege of being...
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
Abstract: A neuroimaging study examined the neural correlates of social exclusion and tested the hypothesis that the brain bases of social pain are similar to those of physical pain. Participants were scanned while playing a virtual ball-tossing game in which they...
Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap
Abstract: A 2-year follow-up of a randomized field experiment previously reported in Science is presented. A subtle intervention to lessen minority students' psychological threat related to being negatively stereotyped in school was tested in an experiment conducted...
High Impact Practices and Historically Underrepresented Minority Students
For over a decade Kuh’s (2008) work on the critical importance of engaged learning has shaped the undergraduate college and university experience. Kuh dubbed these teaching and learning experiences High Impact Practices, and taking part in at least one of them at some...
How L&D Can Build Inclusive Learning Programs
In the keynote opening of our 2020 Partners’ Meeting this past June, Frances Frei said, “Meaningful change only happens quickly. With inclusion, do it quickly and do it now. Do it without a sense of perfection, simply do it better tomorrow than you do today.” That is...