Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of adult expectations on children's learning and performance; one in-classroom study and two experimental studies were made in order to investigate developmental trends in susceptibility to expectancy effects and the relationship of induced vs. self-generated expectancies vis-a-vis children's…

This study continues an earlier project (ED010369) to determine if student achievement and attitude toward school subjects (1) can be improved by increasing feedback to teachers concerning pupil and/or trained observer reaction to their teaching, (2) correlate significantly with attitude of teachers toward their pupils, (3) can be improved to a…

A study tested two hypotheses: (1) that an inservice training program will alter teacher verbal behavior and (2) that this altered behavior will be associated with increased pupil achievement. Subjects were elementary teachers in two buildings, one the experimental (23) and one the control group (20) and their pupils in grades 1 through 5 (596…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDREN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD SCHOOL AND THEIR BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM WAS EXPLORED. SUBJECTS WERE 125 STUDENTS IN FOUR SIXTH GRADE CLASSROOMS IN A PREDOMINATELY WHITE WORKING CLASS SUBURB. THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBJECTS WAS OBSERVED OVER A THREE MONTH PERIOD. QUESTIONNAIRES DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE CHILDREN'S…