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Lenore Jacobson
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American educator who was principal of a South San Francisco elementary school when she initiated the correspondence with psychologist Robert Rosenthal that led to their joint Pygmalion in the Classroom study of teacher-expectation effects.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCo-designed and administered, as the school's own principal, the 1964-65 classroom study with Robert Rosenthal that became Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968), testing whether teachers' expectations of randomly designated growth-spurter pupils shaped those pupils' actual academic gains. 1 Notable WorkPygmalion in the Classroom (with Rosenthal, 1968) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Lenore F Jacobson was principal of an elementary school in the South San Francisco Unified School District in 1963 when she started a correspondence with Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal which led to the influential Pygmalion Effect study.
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