Based on your text's account of research on self-fulfilling prophecies, explain why some children in a class might perform better than others even if the children are all of similar ability levels
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A self-fulfilling prophecy is a phenomenon in which expectations of another's behavior actually leads a person to elicit that behavior. In this case, if a teacher expected some children to do better than others, she may unintentionally pay more attention to them, or do other things that elicit better academic performance from them. This is like the Rosenthal and Jacobson study discussed in the text in which "Bloomers" were treated differently by the teacher, and ended up actually doing better than the other children in the class.
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