Stereotype Threat in Math Performance for White Females

Research has shown that situations that invoke stereotype-based expectation of poor performance for a particular group can impede the performance of members of that group. This has been demonstrated for females in math (Good, Aronson, & Harder 2008; Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000; Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999) as well as White males when confronted with the assumption of Asian superiority in math (Aronson, Lustina, Good, Keogh, Steele, & Brown, 1999; Stone, Lynch, Sjomerling, & Darley, 1999). A body of evidence accumulated over the past decade indicates a construct known as "stereotype threat" as a precipitating factor of the underperformance of certain groups in specific types of situations. Stereotype threat has been defined as the condition of "being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one’s group (Steele & Aronson, 1995).

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