Educational Psychology / Unit 11 EDP 1020 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ripple Effect
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The idea
Kounin's ripple effect describes how a teacher's correction, called a desist, aimed at one student affects the other students who watch it.
In practice
A firm, calm correction of one student settles the nearby students too.
Where people slip
The ripple effect is not misbehavior spreading from student to student; that is contagion, a separate idea.
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