Shots - Health Blog Mon September 17, 2012 Teachers'
Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform Originally
published on Tue September 18, 2012 7:52 am In my Morning
Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how
teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children
they teach. The idea was to figure out what would happen if
teachers were told that certain kids in their class were
destined to succeed, so Rosenthal took a normal IQ test and
dressed it up as a different test. "It was a standardized IQ
test, Flanagan's Test of General Ability," he says. "But the
cover we put on it, we had printed on every test booklet, said
'Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.' " Rosenthal told the
teachers that this very special test from Harvard had the very
special ability to predict which kids were about to be very
special — that is, which kids were about to experience a
dramatic growth in their IQ. After the kids took the test, he
then chose from every class several children totally at rand