Show Teacher Influence The fact of the influence of school teachers expectations of what their student may do upon what they actually achieve has long been BUT NEW light is being shed upon exactly how this happens and Do teachers somehow let their students know that they expect high or low performance from them and as a result get what they SEVERAL studies have indicated that students who are expected to do well receive treatment more likely to cause them to bring in good Differences in teacher behavior in this regard have recently been studied in seventh grade classrooms in an inner-city junior high PARTICIPATING teachers were asked to rank the students in their classes in order of their The ratings were used as a measure of teachers' expectations for the students' classroom Overall results indicated that there were differences in the interactions of Uie teachers with the students at various achievement The students had been divided into groups from whom the teachers said they expected or low levels of THE STUDY revealed that high and middle group students clearly received more response opportunities from the teachers than the low Perhaps the most notable finding was that low achievement students received much less teacher contact than did the high and middle The middle for received twice as much teacher contact as the low LOWEST achieving students consistently had a relatively inferior interaction pattern with the The scientists conducting the study make the important point that such investigations should help remove the of about teacher's expectations and influences and help pave the way toward analyzing and handling instructional processes to provide more equal opportunities and benefits for all |