Pygmalion in the Classroom - Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual Development (Paperback, New Ed)

When first published in 1968, (later updated in 1992), Pygmalion in the Classroom was received with almost universal acclaim for its ground breaking research. The "Pygmalion Phenomenon" is the self-fulfilling prophecy embedded in teachers' expectations. Simply put, when teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectation performance and growth are not as encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a number of ways. Research suggests that our expectations strongly influence the performance of those around us from the members of our football team to the students in our classes. In the Oak School experiment discussed in this book teachers were led to believe that certain students, selected at random, were likely to be showing signs of a spurt in intellectual growth and development. The results were startling. At the end of the year, the students of whom the teaches had these expectations showed significantly greater gains in intellectual growth than did those in the control group.

General

Imprint:	Crown House Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Robert Rosenthal • Lenore Jacobson
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	268
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-904424-06-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN:	1-904424-06-6
Barcode:	9781904424062

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