College Student Stereotypes

Isn’t it bizarre that we don’t realize how much stereotype ties to an individual identity can impact our students performance? Some factor that contribute to such impact are being a minority, the environment and one identities. This essay will be based on Steele Claude book “How stereotypes affect us and what we can do” in sync with Center Community college Student Engagement. “ A Matter of Degrees.” article statistical information. The book by Steele Claude and article by CCSE support the idea that students performance can be affected by their environments because it triggered the feeling of stereotype threat. According to Steele’s research, a group of social psychologists at Princeton University conducted an experiment. “They found something
The study that is being analyzed in the articles is a wide range of study data to help student to success such as characteristic of community college students, advising.tutoring, orientation and etc. The students who participate in the survey were asked to answer question regarding if attend orientation, practice before taking placement test ,attended tutor, work, part time or full time student and anything that involving academic success. This study is prospective study because it was a study conduct to improve success rate in the future. From both the reading and article I notice that there a cause and effect or something like regression analysis. Because it seem to me that the data give off a probability of what the cause and effect of the category that they are surveying or conducting the
According to CCSSE, “even though 73% of CCSSE respondents (N=403,333) indicate that tutoring is somewhat or very important, but only about one-quarter of students (N=130,147) reported ever participating in tutoring” (23). Base on the statistic shown I wanted to state that the students is less likely to success if the students think they are inferior. These data were gathered in 2013 to help community college increase graduation rate. Interpreting the data article I come to the conclusion that it is a type II error because it more bias toward the null hypothesis rejecting the alternative