Author
Robert Rosenthal, Lenore Jacobson
Robert Rosenthal is an American psychologist and Harvard professor who spent his whole career studying how the expectations of researchers and teachers affect results. Lenore Jacobson was the principal of an elementary school in South San Francisco, where the experiment took place.
Books in Livria
- Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual Development
Teachers were told that a test had identified children who were about to make a leap in their development. In reality, the names were picked at random, and a year later many of these children really did gain on an…