Another study was that of (Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968) ‘The Oak School experiment’. All the children in years 1 to 6 were given a standard Intelligence test at the beginning of the school year. Teachers were advised that the test was the ‘Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition’ and it was intended to predict educational progression. Teachers were told that students recording high test scores would progress at a higher rate in the coming year, all the test information provided was not untrue and the test had no foretelling whatever. Subsequently, all the teachers were given a list of students who had scored in the top 20 percent of the test. The names provided were picked at random by the researchers and the children in question had done no better
