A Study of the Teacher's Expectation on their Evaluation of Students in Social Science and Experimental science) in Sanandaj Middle Schools

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In order to examine the teacher's expectation influence on the quality of their assessment of students -both boys and girls- we applied an experimental method of Post-test with a control group in the student's Social and experimental Sciences courses including the following three factors: Expectation making situations, Teacher's sex, and studen's sex. This research project has been implemented as a factors. 120 teachers in this research were asked to assess 80 exam sheets of students in 12 experimental situations by which research hypotheses and its key questions had been analysed. The research findings are supporting teacher's expectation effect in general, but regarding cross-relations of teacher's sex and student's sex there were no meaningful relationship in the teacher's assessment quality of those manipulated situations of expectations such as Positive and negative expectations and without expectation's effect.

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