Evaluates how schools can positively affect the test score gap between black and white students by examining two potential sources for this difference: teachers and students. Offers evidence for the proposition that teachers' perceptions, expectations, and behaviors interact with students' beliefs, behaviors, and work habits in ways that help to…

Discusses the value of training interventions for performance improvement based on the author's experiences with various training events. Topics include making clear expectations; accomplishment-based project planning; understanding performance problems; and participant learning and instructional benefits. (LRW)

Uses metaphor of the dance to suggest reciprocity, harmony, and a mutual exchange of leadership as key components of adolescent-adult relationships. Suggests that adolescents have high expectations of adult's character and competencies; therefore, teachers should elicit the highest values and behaviors from their students. (KDFB)

Examination of teacher evaluations by 750 freshmen in introductory business showed that actual perceptions often diverged from the way they evaluated teaching. Their class expectations and self-assessments were highly related to their assessments of classes and teachers. (Contains 80 references.) (SK)

At 3 times, 164 management students completed student evaluations of teaching (SET), 150 completed an image compatibility questionnaire, and 155 evaluated instructors' overall performance. SET scores and overall evaluations were significantly correlated only when actual and ideal images of instructors were incompatible. When teaching was…

The purpose of this article is to spark discussion regarding the value and feasibility of empirically based procedures for goal setting and evaluation of educational services. Recent legal decisions and policy debates point to the need for clearer criteria in decisions regarding appropriate educational services. Possible roles for school…

Compares two studies examining research self-efficacy beliefs, research outcome expectations, and elements of research training environments among rehabilitation counseling students and faculty. Differences were found in research outcome expectations and research self-efficacy between students and faculty. Social-cognitive career theory is used as…

College students and adults completed religiosity scale, read counselor description (Christian, secular, spiritual-empathic secular), and completed measure of five negative anticipations of Christian clients toward counselors. Subjects with higher religiosity scores had more negative anticipations; strongest negative anticipations were about…

Adolescent trainable mentally handicapped students (n=29) completed a vocational interest inventory, and their parents and teachers of 29 adolescent trainable mentally handicapped students rated their expectations for the students' vocational futures. Results indicated little correspondence between inventory scores and ratings but greater…

Analyzes the relationship between curriculum and the surprising disengagement in a "heavenly" college preparatory high school of "professional" teachers and relatively advantaged lower track students. The regressive curriculum parodies a college campus atmosphere without providing lower track students with access to the "college" academics or…

Educators are questioning the validity of ability grouping. The benefits accruing to high achievers may not offset the stigma attached to the low-achieving groups. Alternatives to ability grouping include mastery learning, cooperative learning, and computer-aided instruction. More flexible grouping can help students develop cooperation and…

Analyzed longitudinal data from 126 employees 1 month prior to being permanently displaced. Behavioral choice model significantly predicted behavioral intention to look for job, effort in looking, and actual behavior/role choice 18 months later. Expectancy for obtaining job was inversely related with age, positively related with education,…

Skills of 25 normally developing kindergartners were assessed directly and through teacher reports. The 18 teachers were generally aware of children's skills, but their awareness of individuals' skills and of specific skills for the group was frequently in error. Implications for special educators in preparing handicapped children for…

The article summarizes assumptions and components of the Direct Instruction Follow Through Model (K-Three) including curriculum, increased teaching time, efficient teaching techniques, thorough implementation, and increased teacher expectations. Research findings are summarized including achievement and affective data, performance of students with…

Labeling is a social process involving the labeled individual and society. Labeling a student "gifted" can have both positive and negative effects on the labeled student, the student's parents, siblings, teachers, and others. Suggestions are offered to maximize the positive elements of the label and to minimize its negative elements. (JDD)