The theoretical contribution of this paper is to regard teachers’ evaluations with a prognostic claim aboutstudents’ future academic ability as a result of a special social situation in the classroom. We assume thatafter teachers have framed the social situation, particular scripts of action...

The substantial aim of this paper is to integrate the main idea of 'Pygmalion' orself-fullling prophecy research (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968; Jussim and Har-ber, 2005) into the general subjective expected utility framework about inequalityin educational opportunities (Breen and Goldthorpe, 1997;...