Improving Academic Achievement

Improving Academic Achievement

Impact of Psychological Factors on Education
Educational Psychology
2002, Pages 25-36
Improving Academic Achievement

Chapter 2 - The Pygmalion Effect and its Mediating Mechanisms

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This chapter deals with the Pygmalion effect in children. It presents case studies to highlight the signs and symptoms of this effect, highlighting the uniformity of effects observed across studies. It also demonstrates the method of measuring teacher expectations and explores the question of whether or not the challenge level and teachers' statements impact children's performance. Some of these methods are more direct while some are less direct. More direct procedures include asking teachers to make global overall assessments of the expectations they hold for each of the children in their class. Somewhat less global, more specific, estimates can be obtained from teachers by asking, for each of their students, the grade level at which they will be reading at the end of the year, or the percentile level they will achieve on any one of a number of standardized achievement tests. Finally, the chapter examines what happens when greater intellectual gains are expected of children by adults, and the reason this works to result in higher student achievement.

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