{
  "id": 17217352,
  "title": "Asking teachers to set high expectations leads to more detailed feedback and reveals subtle bias, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/asking-teachers-to-set-high-expectations-leads-to-more-detailed",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-30T11:20:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-teachers-high-feedback-reveals-subtle.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A new study indicates that instructing educators to convey high expectations and confidence in students' capabilities results in more comprehensive feedback, as reported by Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Thacker, and Joseph Cimpian. The research, which involved nearly 1,000 teachers across the United States, is the first to demonstrate that this method, termed 'wise feedback,' can alter the content of teachers' responses to students' work. Teachers who received this prompt provided more specific information about students' performance, highlighting strengths and weaknesses in their reasoning. The study, published in Educational Researcher, randomly assigned teachers to either maintain their usual feedback approach or follow the wise feedback guidelines. The prompted group gave more detailed feedback, praising students' abilities nearly four times more often and questioning their abilities or suggesting they work harder almost five times more frequently. However, these comments remained uncommon, comprising under 3% of responses. The prompt also led to more negative comments about the math abilities of Black girls compared to white boys, with similar effects observed for other student demographics. The researchers emphasize that while encouraging high expectations is essential, providing teachers with support in giving specific, actionable, and unbiased feedback is equally important.",
  "summary": "Prompting teachers to communicate high expectations and confidence in students' potential leads them to give more detailed feedback, according to a new study led by Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ph.D., a professor of education at USC Rossier and co-director of the USC STEM Center; Ian Thacker, Ph.D., an associate professor of educational psychology at The University of Texas at San Antonio; and Joseph…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}