Comment on Problems in Education

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:05:14 GMT

See also: Pygmalion in the Classroom.

Simply put, when teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways

It's entirely reasonable that teacher's ratings of children's academic abilities &tc cause future achievement.

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