[Air-L] Gender in surveys/tests

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Is this list archived and are messages that are archived accessible and
searchable?  I believe this question was asked a year or so ago and there
were some good and useful responses.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Pamela Carson <Pamela.Carson at concordia.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Devayani,
>
> This paper is about how the activation of gender or ethnicity stereotypes
> can affect performance:
>
> Ambady, N., Shih, M., Kim, A., & Pittinsky, T. L. (2001). Stereotype
> susceptibility in children: Effects of identity activation on quantitative
> performance. Psychological
> Science, 12, 385–390.
>
> Dario Cvencek is another researcher who has looked at math-gender
> stereotypes.
>
> http://ilabs.uw.edu/research-scientists/bio/i-labs-dario-cvencek-phd
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pam
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Devayani Tirthali
> Sent: July-14-16 3:37 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Gender in surveys/tests
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have always followed the rule of thumb to not ask the demographic
> questions - gender, race/ethnicity - in the beginning of the survey or a
> test because it affects how people answer the questions.
>
> Can somebody please share some research that supports this? I remember
> reading research about how test scores are affected when students are
> reminded about their gender and gender related stereotype. I also remember
> reading a thread on air listserv where somebody pointed out not to ask
> gender questions in the beginning of the survey. But cannot find any of the
> papers or that email thread. If
>
> Can anybody share literature that offers reason for not asking gender
> question in the beginning of the survey?
>
> Thanks,
> Devayani
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