SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Fallacy
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They said nothing at all about the other children in the class. Really, all these researchers did was to create an impression in the teachers" minds that great things could be expected of some of their students in the coming year. Then they sat back and waited to see what would happen. At the end of the year, rosenthal and jacobson retested the students using the same intelligence test they had used the year before. Most of the students showed some gains in points on the test (just as we would expect of children as they get older). But as figure 13. 6 shows, the kids who were expected to spurt made larger gains than nonspurters. On their report cards, the kids who had been labeled as spurters showed even more improvement compared to the kids who hadn"t been labeled. Figure 13. 7 shows the grade point changes for reading. Similar increases for spurters compared to nonspurters were found in arithmetic grades.
