“High expectations” is the mantra of today’s school reformers, who are convinced that the trouble with public education is that students have been allowed to slide by with little effort. Their version ...

This apparent need for initial deception would certainly seem to deflate any hope that the Pygmalion Effect one day could change the way we parent our children, run schools and factories and even ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Unfortunately, the study also says ...

"Good" teacher behaviors are defined as those teacher behaviors experts judged likely to increase pupil reading performance. The effect of an increase in the "good" teacher behaviors on the ...

In the early 1960s, a psychology experiment at the University of North Dakota involved students working with lab rats. Half were informed their rats were genetically predisposed to excel in learning ...

Instead of beefing about teachers' anaemic dedication to the profession of teaching, let's first see whether they are provided a friendly and encouraging atmosphere to enable them to render their ...

When we expect certain behaviours of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behaviour more likely to occur. Robert Rosenthal George Bernard Shaw, in his famous play, Pygmalion, ...

I recently had an opportunity to sit down and watch “My Fair Lady” — for the umpteenth time. I do like this movie for several reasons. Did you know that it is based on the Broadway production ...