Teacher expectations

Overview

Influence: Teacher expectations
Domain: Teacher
Sub-Domain: Teacher attributes
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
Influence Definition: The expectations about student performance held by teachers. These can be accurate or effected by biases (social background, gender, culture), but more often teachers hold either low, medium or high expectations for all their students.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Behavioral and Brain Sciences	Rosenthal & Rubin	Interpersonal expectancy effects: The first 345 studies	1978	Teacher expectations	345	NA	345	0.70
Evaluation in Education	Smith	Teacher expectations	1980	Teacher expectations	44	NA	149	0.38
Journal of Educational Psychology	Dusek & Joseph	The bases of teacher expectancies: A meta-analysis	1983	Teacher expectations	79	NA	79	0.16
Journal of Educational Psychology	Raudenbush	Magnitude of teacher expectancy effects on pupil IQ as a function of the credibility of expectancy induction: A synthesis of findings from 18 experiments	1984	Teacher expectations	18	NA	33	0.11
Psychological Bulletin	Harris & Rosenthal	Mediation of interpersonal expectancy effects: 31 meta-analyses	1985	Teacher expectations	12	2,382	12	0.41
Journal of Educational Psychology	Tenebaum & Ruck	Are teachers' expectations different for racial minority than for European American students? A meta-analysis	2007	Teacher expectations	39	NA	39	0.23
Educational Research and Evaluation	de Boer, Timmermans, & van der Werf	The effects of teacher expectation interventions on teachers' expectations and student achievement; Narrative review and meta-analysis.	2018	Teacher expectations	10	NA	10	0.30
Psycho-Educational Research Reviews	Ates & Ünal	The Relationship between Teacher Academic Optimism and Student Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis.	2021	Teacher optimism	13	NA	13	0.51
TOTAL/AVERAGE						560	2,382	680	0.35