I can't address your question, but as an undergrad, my professors warned me to never use any articles from psychological reports as it wasn't peer reviewed and was of very poor quality. i haven't forgotten this and tell my students the same thing. i would like to know if tipsters think this or if I've been wrong all these years?
Ann Calhoun-Sauls wrote: > Hi all, > > I've assigned the excert from Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968) Teachers' > expectancies:Determinants of pupils' I.Q. gains. Psychological Reports, 19, > 115-118. that's reproduced in Pettijohn's Sources Notable Selections in > Psychology book. One of my better students e-mailed me a question about a > line he found particularly difficult to understand. While I think I know > what was meant from the context, I also found the sentence extremely > difficult and thought that it may have been misprinted. I''ve e-mailed the > student back with my interpretation of the section, but wanted to see if any > of you had any other input or perhaps even access to the original source. > > The sentence in question reads "Prior research on the unintentional > communication of expectancies in experimentally more carefully controlled > interactions suggests that this question will not be easily unanswered > (Rosenthal, in press)" The preceeding sentence was "The most important > question which remains is that which asks how a teacher's expectation > becomes translated into behavior in such a way as to elicit the expected > pupil behavior." These occur on page 171 in the Pettijohn book as the next > to the last paragraph of the selection. > > What I told my student is: > > The part of the sentence that reads "Prior research . . . interactions" and > the citation of "Rosenthal (in press)" means that Rosenthal had performed > another study in which he had observed how the teachers' interacted with the > students after being given expectations about their ability. The second part > of the sentence appears to simply mean that from that study Rosenthal had > not found any clear differences in how the teachers treated the students and > assumed that it would be hard to figure it out. I agree that the phrasing > is strange; it sounds like it should read "easily answered" not "easily > unanswered." It could simply be that the word was copied incorrectly when > the article was edited for your Sources book. Or it could be that this was > a phrase that was once commonly used and went out of style before my time. > I like the latter interpretation because it makes me feel really young for > the first time in a while. Thank you. > > Any comments? > > Ann Calhoun-Sauls > Belmont Abbey College > Belmont, NC 28102 > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *********** Tasha R. Howe, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Psychology (Developmental) Transylvania University 300 N. Broadway Lexington, KY 40508 Phone: (859) 233-8144 FAX: (859) 281-3507 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.transy.edu/homepages/thowe/ftpdpages/index2.html Another website I created: http://www.scbwi-midsouth.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
