Teacher expectations
Overview
- Influence: Teacher expectations
- Domain: Teacher
- Sub-Domain: Teacher attributes
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- 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.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 7
- Number of studies: 613
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 731
- Effect size: 0.42
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Rosenthal & Rubin | USA | Interpersonal expectancy effects: The first 345 studies | 1978 | Teacher expectations | 345 | 0 | 345 | 0.70 |
| Evaluation in Education | Smith | USA | Teacher expectations | 1980 | Teacher expectations | 46 | 0 | 149 | 0.82 |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Dusek & Joseph | USA | The bases of teacher expectancies: A meta-analysis | 1983 | Teacher expectations | 102 | 0 | 102 | 0.39 |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Raudenbush | USA | 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 | 0 | 33 | 0.08 |
| Psychological Bulletin | Harris & Rosenthal | USA | Mediation of interpersonal expectancy effects: 31 meta-analyses | 1985 | Teacher expectations | 53 | 0 | 53 | 0.41 |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Tenebaum & Ruck | England | Are teachers' expectations different for racial minority than for European American students? A meta-analysis | 2007 | Teacher expectations | 39 | 0 | 39 | 0.23 |
| Educational Research and Evaluation | de Boer, Timmermans, & van der Werf | Netherlands | The effects of teacher expectation interventions on teachers' expectations and student achievement; Narrative review and meta-analysis. | 2018 | Teacher expectations | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0.30 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 613 | 0 | 731 | 0.42 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 |