Pygmalion in the Classroom
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Pygmalion in the Classroom is a 1968 book by
Robert Rosenthal
and Lenore Jacobson
about the effects of teacher expectation on student performance.
Reviewing the book, James Rhem wrote:
See:
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal (psychologist)
Robert Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. His interests include self-fulfilling prophecies, which he explored in a well-known study of the Pygmalion Effect: the effect of teachers' expectations on students.Rosenthal was born in Giessen,...
and Lenore Jacobson
Lenore Jacobson
Lenore F Jacobson was principal of an elementary school in the South San Francisco Unified School District in 1963 when she started a correspondence with Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal which led to the influential Pygmalion Effect study....
about the effects of teacher expectation on student performance.
Reviewing the book, James Rhem wrote:
- "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" http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9902/pygm_1.htm
See:
- Pygmalion effectPygmalion effectThe Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform...
- educational reform
- American educational system