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Bog'liq Listening transcripts 230531 122425But what the researchers wanted to find out was basically what they could do
about the relatively low level of the women’s results
Q22
. But in order to find a solution
they needed to find out more about the nature of the problem.
LISA:
Right – now let’s see if I can remember … it was that in the physics class, the female students
thought the male students all assumed that women weren’t any good at physics … was that
it? And they thought that the men expected them to get poor results in their tests.
GREG:
That’s what the women thought, and that made them nervous, so they did get poor results.
But actually they were wrong … No one was making any assumption about the female
students at all.
Q23
LISA:
Anyway, what Miyake’s team did was quite simple – getting the students to do some writing
before they went into the physics class. What did they call it?
GREG:
Values-affirmation –
they had to write an essay focusing on things that were significant
to them, not particularly to do with the subject they were studying, but more general
things like music or people who mattered to them.
Q24
LISA:
Right. So the idea of doing the writing is that this gets the students thinking in a positive
way.
GREG:
And putting these thoughts into words can relax them and help them overcome the
psychological factors that lead to poor performance
Q25
. Yeah.
But what the researchers
in the study hadn’t expected was that this one activity raised the women’s physics
grades from the C to the B range.
Q26
LISA:
A huge change. Pity it wasn’t to an A, but still! No, but it does suggest that the women were
seriously underperforming beforehand, in comparison with the men.
GREG:
Yes. Mind you, Miyake’s article left out a lot of details. Like, did the students to the writing
just once, or several times?
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