How Can Identifying Students as "Deficient" or "Gifted" Generate a Self-Fulfilling

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Essay

How can identifying students as "deficient" or "gifted" generate a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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Definitions:

Ritual Artifact

An object used in a ritual, which may carry symbolic meaning or significance related to the act it is part of.

Ritual Script

A predefined sequence of actions or words performed during a ritual or ceremony, often with symbolic significance.

Binary Opposition

A concept in structuralism describing a pair of theoretical opposites or contrasting categories, such as good/evil or male/female.

Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist known for his structuralist theories in anthropology and sociology.