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WEPAN Webinar Invitation: Implicit Bias: The Power of Automatic, Unintended Mindsets

posted Feb 10, 2012 10:52 AM by PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP

WEPAN Prof. Dev.

 

Free Webinar -- Open to Everyone!

Implicit Bias:

The Power of Automatic, Unintended Mindsets

 

 

Fred Smyth

Fred Smyth, Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invite a colleague (or two, or more) to join the FREE webinar with you! 

February 23, 2012

 1:00-2:00 EST

 Register Here!

  

Implicit mindsets operate on important life judgments and decisions. Implicit biases are linked to critical STEM outcomes such as choice of major and performance on high stakes tests.

 

Participants will learn about:

  • Measuring implicit bias in STEM
  • The Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) (https://implicit.harvard.edu)
  • Taking the "Gender-Science" IAT. 
  • Strategies for changing implicit biases and avoiding their effects.

 

Fred Smyth's Bio:

Smyth is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He directs the Full Potential Initiative, an NSF-funded longitudinal study of how implicit mindsets about intellectual ability and academic belonging affect students and educators.  His publications include analysis of gender and race gaps in STEM majors persistence and implicit gender stereotypes in different nations and related adolescent math and science achievement.

 

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