Listen to a conversation between two students.
I really like my sociology class. It's a seminar on methods in sociology. That does not sound some terribly exciting. I thought so too at first. But after we being reading different research studies, we found out about the conclusions, their finding and we also discuss the details of how they did the study. Some of reading has been fascinating. For example? Well, we just read the study that was done in an elementary school. A school where a lot of students were failing. When the researchers went into the school, they thought they would find out how teachers low expectations contributed to students doing so poor in the school. I think I 've heard of that. Then when students do not perform well in the school, it's called self fulfilling something. Right, self fulfilling prophecy. But in this school, there was one first grade teacher. They called her Ms. A who had very positive affect on students. The researchers talk to the students after they become adults and examine the students ' school records.