Experimenter Expectancy Effect On Children In A Classroom Setting

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his/her eyebrows in anticipation of the
oncoming correct answer, the horse would stop stomping. Once again, the
experimenter's cues decided the outcome of the tests. Acting on these results,
Rosenthal and Jacobson hypothesized that teacher's expectancies would cause them
unintentionally to treat the students they thought to be bright in a different
manner than those they thought to be average or even less bright.
Rosenthal and Jacobson used some materials that were important in the
completing their investigation. The experimenters used students and their
teachers as the subjects of their study. As part of their experiment, they even
chose which grades the students would be in. They also used Flanagan's Tests of
General Ability as a disguise to predict academic expectancies. The
experimenters did not use anything else in their experiment but instead let
their subjects do the rest. Rosenthal and Jacobson's goal was to see how
teachers would treat students whom they thought were ...

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