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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient
Pygmalion Effect
Another person’s expectation can sometimes alter the opportunities, feedback or treatment they provide and thereby contribute to later performance, but effects are usually conditional and expectations may also be accurate.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Classroom: Teacher Expectations, Teacher Feedback and Student Achievement
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Expectations were associated with differential feedback and later performance in patterns consistent with a self-fulfilling pathway.
- Where it may not transfer
- Naturalistic mediation cannot eliminate prior achievement, behaviour, classroom or teacher confounding and does not prove that raising stated expectations alone causes improvement.
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