Anxiety and Teacher Expectations

Independent variable

whether teachers were told the student had a high iq and were going to bloom.

Gender influences

female teachers attitudes are more contagious to female students.

independent variable

whether teachers were told the student had a high iq and were going to bloom

teachers of young students have different teaching styles

more student centered, more reinforcement

self-fulfilling prophecy

because they were expected to grow, they did

gender influences

female teachers attitudes are more contagious to female students

experimenter bias

bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment

self-fulfilling prophecy

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gender influences in math anxiety

when a female teacher had a negative attitude about math, it was transferred to her students, especially to the female students

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