Nathan's School Records Are Passed from Teacher to Teacher Each

question 7

Multiple Choice

Nathan's school records are passed from teacher to teacher each year. Every year his new teacher reads the same comments, "Nathan is intelligent but lazy." At the end of the year that new teacher writes the same summary statement and passes it on to the next teacher in the subsequent grade. This could be an example of

• A) academic competence.
• B) self-fulfilling prophecy.
• C) self-efficacy.
• D) metacognition.

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