Recent Study; Interesting

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I had a LOVELY talk with the Super Intendant at my High School (we're good friends :D, we live near each other too). She told me that in a recent study, two teachers were taken from random schools and were told that they would be teaching certain students.</p>

<p>Teacher A was told her class was full of geniuses who had respect for their teacher and wanted to learn. (The students Teacher A taught were really not the brightest bunch of people).</p>

<p>Teacher B was told her class was full of less intellectual pupils who didn't know what to do. (The students Teacher B taught were actually people who scored in the top 2% for standardized tests).</p>

<p>By the end of the study, Teacher A's students actually did better by a marginal 15% as apposed to Teacher B's on the same material and tests. Very interesting if you ask me.</p>

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<p>Eh, more details?</p>

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<p>And the moral of the story is...?</p>

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<p>...that confirmation bias is true.</p>

<p>The attitude the teacher has toward her students and the students' attitudes towards her/him is like an action-reaction pair--many studies have concluded that, meaning that the attitude a teacher has towards her/his students is directly related to the students' performance in her/his class.</p>

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<p>Well, I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Did the experiment exhibit the four essential things for experimental studies?</p>

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<p>Alrighty then.</p>

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<p>I know that was untechnical...using "things". I couldn't think of the word.</p>

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<p>We studied that last year in psych... that survey was done like in the 50s.</p>

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<p>Nah. The Super Intendant told me it was done in 2003 by... Vanderbilt(sp) University. I don't know how she got the information.</p>