Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968: Improving teacher's expectations of some students increased intellectual growth among children over the school year
Reference:
Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom. The urban review, 3(1), 16-20.
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Telling elementary-school teachers that a test administered at the beginning of the school year has identified certain children as “growth spurters” led to significantly greater intellectual growth in children, as measured by improved intelligence-quotient scores over the school year.
Psychological Process:
Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs about other people's potential to learn and growHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Which students are most likely to grow?Which students are most likely to grow?Psychological Question Addressed
Which students are most likely to grow?Psychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Education
Intervention Technique:
Direct labeling, of other people