Discusses how education is still a profession held hostage by images. Presents concerns dealing with racial expectations in the field of English education. Focuses and concentrates on the contents of the English language and literature professions that, although acknowledging its many diversities, avoids the distraction of "finding someone to look…

Predominant Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) scores for 533 Finnish business students were as follows: 67% extraverted, 53% intuitive, 67% thinking, and 33% feeling. For Schein's career anchors, 26% preferred Technical Competence, 17% Managerial Competence, and 14% Independence. Significant relationships between MBTI preferences and career…

Presents findings that identify components of the practices of teachers acting as assessors of students' mathematics in the normal course of classroom work. Indicates that even teachers who have undergone some assessment training may underestimate the role of evidence interpretation, and questions about equity in the uses of teachers' judgements…

Interviews with British nurse administrators and a survey of nurses who qualified under the old system and the new higher education system revealed that the new system has not attracted different applicants in terms of age, education, or gender. Not all administrators felt that new graduates were better prepared. More of the new graduates felt…

Using Walt Whitman's poetry, a chief executive officer's speech, and a first-grade teacher's experience, a high school teacher describes the transformation of her understanding of achievement and intelligence. She concludes that having high expectations does not mean the same goals for every student and that students learn best what they learn out…

Students (n=118) randomly assigned to the role of either counselor or client engaged in a face-to-face, videotaped discussion. Previously, counselors received a suggestion that the client was extroverted or introverted. Results indicated that only counselors motivated by diagnostic concerns elicited behavioral confirmation. (JPS)

Interviews with 22 industry managers and scientists delineated 4 types of business relationships with universities: (1) small companies with close personal ties but insufficient capital; (2) small-medium firms often using state grants but concerned with intellectual property rights; (3) medium-large firms facing internal obstacles to…

Studied the expectations and preferences of undergraduates with regard to teaching, learning, and assessment. Responses of 395 undergraduates at British universities showed that students expected to be taught by formal and interactive lectures but preferred to be taught by interactive lectures and group-based activities. (SLD)

Survey responses from 174 health care employers identified their expectations of entry-level associate degree nursing graduates. Verbal/written communication, accountability, flexibility, and open mindedness ranked highest. Fiscal management competence ranked lowest. (SK)

The mature students' three R's framework was formulated from a study investigating mature students' experience of higher education: motivations, expectations, and outcomes. The study was based on new paradigm research methods. The three R's framework is of interest to, and useful for, advisers and counselors working with adults in the process of…

Offers a personal account of why, within a group of four Harlem families, some children achieved educational and career success while others were plagued by serious problems. Stresses the importance of good parenting and high expectations and suggests strategies for working with students at risk because of disadvantaged environments. (EV)

Path analysis depicted a relationship between career self-efficacy beliefs and four social cognitive career theory variables (self-efficacy, career goals, vocational interests, career barriers) for 289 undergraduates. The fifth, college outcomes expectations, was not related to self-efficacy. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

Studied the degree to which attachment orientations were related to negative mood regulation expectancies and conflict management strategies with best friends and romantic partners in a sample of 140 female college students. Discusses results in relation to previous research on attachment theory and implications for interventions. (SLD)

Presents study results that supports relationship between individual goals and normative expectations about life span development, especially when it comes to domains of education, occupation, and family. Reports that respondents showed an awareness of the accumulation of social problems. Adolescents rated their future as better than the future of…

When 126 rural 10th-12th graders completed the "My Vocational Challenges" instrument, perceived parental support was a significant predictor of efficacy expectations and vocational interests. Using Holland's classifications, both genders associated men with "Realistic" and "Investigative" occupations and women with "Artistic" and "Conventional"…