Teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies: knowns and unknowns, resolved and unresolved controversies.

@article{Jussim2005TeacherEA,
  title={Teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies: knowns and unknowns, resolved and unresolved controversies.},
  author={Lee Jussim and Kent D Harber},
  journal={Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc},
  year={2005},
  volume={9 2},
  pages={131-55}
}

• Lee Jussim, Kent D Harber
• Published 2005 in
  Personality and social psychology review : an…

This article shows that 35 years of empirical research on teacher expectations justifies the following conclusions: (a) Self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom do occur, but these effects are typically small, they do not accumulate greatly across perceivers or over time, and they may be more likely to dissipate than accumulate; (b) powerful self-fulfilling prophecies may selectively occur among students from stigmatized social groups; (c) whether self-fulfilling prophecies affect… CONTINUE READING

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