Argues that criteria for assessing excellence in higher education should be based on a definition of excellence which stresses how well people, programs, departments, or institutions perform. Maintains that excellence occurs when people, programs, or institutions perform beyond expected levels. (BL)

Describes characteristics and treatment of the divorce-produced single-parent family, in which intergenerational boundaries have become blurred and role expectations ill-defined. (Author/BL)

Investigated expected outcome on a test as a determinant of mood among college students. No correlation between mood and expected result was found. However, anticipated emotions, attributions of the expected result to chance and attribution of mood to the exam did correlated with mood. Female students were more affected than males. (Author/BL)

This report, based on data collected from 166 Cuban refugees who registered with the International Rescue Committee, Catholic Charities, or Church World Service, explores refugees' (1) hopes and fears upon arrival, (2) expectations about how they would be received by Cubans and non-Cubans, (3) appraisal of the Cuban situation before departure, and…

Values of 16- and 18-year olds were examined by a questionnaire developed from essays written by 250 secondary students on life in the year 2000 and hopes for the future. Results showed them to be pessimistic and not very materialistic. Technological society seemed to be rejected by many, particularly girls. (SK)

Attempts to assess whether social learning or attributional theory best accounts for expectancies of future success in college students (N=159) with a modification of a task used by Weiner and Kukla (1970). Results indicated partial support for elements of both the social learning and attribution theories. (LLL)

Describes the Expectations About Counseling (EAC) questionnaire, a promising instrument that may help standardize research on expectations. Used the EAC to compare expectations of student nonclients, student clients, and nonstudent clients (N=78). No statistically significant differences were found among the groups. (BH)

The "Test Anxiety Scale for Children" and the "Lie Scale for Children" were administered to 60 children, half of whom were defined by schools as learning disabled (LD). LD subjects were more anxious than the nondisabled, and their test anxiety was significantly related to reading and mathematics achievement scores. (Author)

Explains the rationale, methodology, and advantages of the regression equation approach to quantifying academic discrepancy, an aspect of learning disability. Variations of the expectancy formula and IQ-achievement difference approach produce serious errors of including too many above average children and too few below average. (JAC)

Reports on a series of four experiments designed to study the importance of the variables of task structure and method of expectancy inducement in effecting systematic observer bias. (Author/RK)

Reanalysis of previous studies indicated mean persistence scores are highest and equal for success-motivated subjects with high subjective expectation of success and for failure-avoidance motivated subjects with low expectation of success; scores are lowest for success-motivated subjects with low success expectation and for failure-avoidance…

The gap between aspirations and expectations may be expected to increase as the individual becomes more aware of the distinction between what he would like to do versus what he really expects to do. This study attempted to explore these ideas to see to what extent variations exist by race and sex. (Author/RK)

This document summarizes the reasons No Child Left Behind is important to students with learning disabilities. The sections include: Lack of Educational Benefit; Lack of Qualified Teachers; Lack of Expectataions; and Lack of Accountability.

The primary purpose of this report is to provide logic models and measurable outcomes for youth in transition to adulthood programs funded by the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation (DCCYIT). In addition, the report describes the factors associated with the emergence of the life cycle stage considered the transition to adulthood,…

When discussing plagiarism and cheating these days, college faculty seem to find themselves using the rhetoric of crime and punishment ("It's easier to steal from the Internet") on their students rather than a rhetoric more attuned to their actual mission. A short overview in this paper of the history of plagiarism and the development of the…