Teachers' expectations can influence how students perform

Alix Spiegel — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:44:13 +0000

In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.

The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a

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Teachers' expectations can influence how students perform