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The Teacher As Pygmalion: Comments on the Psychology of Expectation.
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Gumpert, Peter; Gumpert, Carol – The Urban Review, 1968
Although this review of "Pygmalion in the Classroom," an experimental study of the effect of positive teacher expectations on the intellectual development of their disadvantaged students, generally affirms the findings of the experiment, it points out that (1) since the average improvement of the experimental elementary school children was…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Elementary School Students