The "Making it Work" book is for practitioners and managers working with people with learning difficulties in FE colleges, adult and community learning services, work-based learning and voluntary sector organisations. This book was produced as a result of a two-year project funded by the Department of Health. It provides information…

This research project is a qualitative study of 4 White female elementary school teachers working in an urban school district populated by primarily Mexican American students. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documents. This study examines the perceptions, beliefs, and life experiences of White female teachers…

Understanding the social behaviors teachers believe is critical for school success and can contribute to the development of effective behavioral supports and assist teachers in better preparing students for successful school transitions across the K-12 grade span. We explored 1303 elementary, middle, and high school teachers' expectations of…

Interpersonal expectancy effects--the unintentional expectations that experimenters, teachers, and authority figures bring to experiments, classrooms, and other situations--can wield significant influence on individuals. Some of the issues surrounding expectancy effects are detailed in this paper. The effect itself has been recreated in…

Parents of handicapped (N=50) and nonhandicapped (N=50) children from mainstreamed public school kindergarten classrooms participated in a telephone interview regarding their children's kindergarten programs. Results indicated group differences between parental expectations for and degree of satisfaction with their children's programs but…

To assess how children set expectations and make attributions, 117 first-, fourth-, and sixth-graders were given either homogeneous or heterogeneous false feedback for four pages of perceptual judgment problems. Older children, girls and persons receiving homogenous feedback had more accurate expectations than their counterparts. Attributional…

Representatives of recent major report and study commissions discuss standards and expectations for American education. (JOW)

Summarizes what to expect for teachers according to the stars and including all signs of the zodiak. Quite humorous, actually. (GB)

Teacher attitudes in the classroom can affect a child's level of accomplishment. (CK)

Used 2 (gender) x 2 (favorable versus unfavorable occupations) x 3 (positive versus negative versus mixed valence information) between-subjects factorial design to explore disliked occupations, negative occupational information, and vocational differentiation. Found negative information linked to higher vocational differentiation when subjects…

Previous inquiries into the relationship between education and housework productivity reveal that expectations differ along disciplinary (i.e., economics vs. non-economics) lines and empirical results from the economics literature are mixed. Expectations of a positive sign between education and housework productivity in the economics literature…

In this study international and domestic students were compared on variables such as accommodation and financial satisfaction, social support, mismatched expectations, academic stress, dysfunctional coping, and psychological distress. International and domestic students (N = 86 for each group), enrolled at a large Australian university based in a…

Individuals influence each others' decisions about cultural products such as songs, books, and movies; but to what extent can the perception of success become a "self-fulfilling prophecy"? We have explored this question experimentally by artificially inverting the true popularity of songs in an online "music market," in which 12,207 participants…