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communicate high expectations. Mild punishment, like criticism, produced learning
gains for high SES students, but was not correlated positively or negatively with
learning for low SES students.
The authors mentioned several surprises in their results. Most of the surprises
were expected relationships that did not appear. Teacher warmth, leadership
style, confidence, and politeness failed to show any relationships with student
learning. Apparen