Rosenthal & Jacobson
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson conducted the famous Pygmalion study showing that teacher expectations create self-fulfilling prophecies affecting student achievement.
Real World
At Oak School in San Francisco, randomly chosen pupils gained up to 15 IQ points more than control students after just one year, purely because teachers believed they were 'bloomers.'
Exam Focus
Name the study as 'Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968)' and specify that students were randomly selected to show expectations, not ability, caused gains.
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