Teacher expectation effects are conditional: some teachers exhibit markedly different behavior and opportunities based on perceived student ability while others do not¶

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q2 i? Tom Good reports that an early disagreement with Brophy about whether teachers vary in interactions with students believed more or less capable led to research showing both patterns exist across teachers. → Daniel Robinson 2009

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Daniel Robinson 2009¶

Daniel Robinson. (2009). Editor's Note: Remembering Jere Brophy. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-009-9115-x

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Tom Good's tribute recounts the joint Brophy–Good teacher expectation research: the dispute produced articles concluding that some teachers differentially treat students by perceived ability while others do not. No effect sizes are printed.

"Our first common research activity evolved around a disagreement of the extent to which teachers would vary in how they interacted with students they believed to be more and less capable. This dispute led to a spate of articles that in the end proved both of us right and wrong. Some teachers exhibit markedly different behavior and opportunities based upon perceived level of student ability — others do not."

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• Between 1969 and 1983 Brophy and colleagues conducted more process-outcome studies than any other researcher, correlating teacher classroom practices with student achievement gains — related
• Brophy's dyadic observational system coded student responses to teacher questions as correct, partly correct, do not know, or error, and coded each teacher's response to those student responses — related
• The phrase and idea of teaching in small steps originated with Brophy's analysis of correlations showing teachers whose students had high proportions of correct responses — related
• Teacher expectancy effects: seeded expectations led treated students to outperform peers (as reported by the review) — related