Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pygmalion in the school
- Variables
- Age
- "An organism can
be shaped, molded
or influenced"
Scott (1962)
- Ability
- "There are only modest
correlations between initial
intellectual status and
changes in intellectual status"
Thordike (1966)
- Minority group status
- "Disadvantaged
almost means
minority group"
- Sex
- "Teachers are females, so the
influence in ladys interest us most"
- Intellectual growth
- Expectancy advantage
- by grades
- control group gained over weight
IQ points, the experimental over
twelve
- the experiments are good
for the two groups
- by Tracks and Sex
- "Girls showed a slightly greater
advantage than boys"
- The ones in the lower grades
gained more IQ, because they
are more malleable
- by Minority-Groups Status
- "Children of the minority
groups were more
advantaged"
- Discussion
- Six interpretations
- "Experiment were more effective
with younger children because
they are easier to change"
- "Younger children within a given
school have less well-established
reputations"
- "Young children are
believed by teachers to be
more malleable"
- "Young children are more sensitive, and
teachers communicate their expectations by
the way she looks, postures and touches"
- "Teachers' expectations were
more effective in the lower grade"
- "The greater IQ gain in younger children attributable to
teacher expectation in a result of sampling of teachers"