Teachers’ judgments of their students' ability involve a self-fulfilling prophecy, a new study confirms.
50 years after the publication of Pygmalion in the Classroom, a team of researchers tested this famous and highly debated effect and studied 294 Chinese students to see if their 5th grade teacher’s evaluation had an influence on their 6th grade English level...
Preservice elementary school teachers are biased in their appraisal of pupils’ emotions and behavior.
A team of researcher recently conducted a double study on 40 American preservice elementary school teachers (75% female, mostly White). In the first task, participants had to label the emotion displayed by White and Black adults in different ambiguous vignettes.