The effect of teacher expectations on the appraisal of academy performance of guidance school students

Shokrkon, H.; Pirnia, M.A.

doi:10.22055/psy.1995.16526

The effect of teacher expectations on the appraisal of academy performance of guidance school students

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

H. Shokrkon

M.A. Pirnia

10.22055/psy.1995.16526

Abstract

This investigation intended to examine the effect of teacher expectations on their appraisals of the science performance and their predictions of the future sexes of male and female second-grade guidance school students in Ahvaz, in the academy year of 1993-94. Performance was measured by a free-response exam and a multiple-choice one, and future success by a likert-type scale. The sample consisted of 120 randomly selected guidance school teachers of the three districts of Ahvaz office of education. Each teacher corrected the exams of 40 students in two separate batches. While, in fact, the exams were divided randomly into two batches, the teachers very informed that one batch belonged to highly intelligent students 2, and the other to ordinary pupils. A three-way, 2×2×factorial ANOVA was used to analyze the relevant data. The three factors were teacher's sex, student's sex, and it's students intelligence in two levels. Turkey follow-up method was also employed to compare the means of various pairs of groups. The findings confirmed the hypotheses of this research. The results indicated that teachers give higher scores to students believed to be highly intelligent with regard to free-response exam but not multiple- choice ones. Teachers predictions of the future success of "highly intelligent" students were also higher.

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