This study examines the expectations held by three generations of men and women toward women mixing careers with marriage and family. A questionnaire of 9 items was distributed to 46 women and 46 men from 19 years old to 72 years old who were undergraduate students or staff at the College of Saint Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota) or the University of…

The purpose of this study was to obtain information on a variety of school skills that preschool and kindergarten teachers expect children to display in regular kindergarten classrooms. The Skill Expectation Survey for Kindergarten Readiness was administered to 21 preschool teachers and 28 kindergarten teachers from two school districts in Kansas.…

The literature on attrition points to the intake and first therapy interviews as sharing the highest dropout rates. Attrition is said to be related to client, therapist, and type-of-therapy variables. To look further into the intake session with an emphasis on client-therapist and client-clinic interaction variables, clients (N=45) rated their…

Recent research on women's lives has emphasized the complex interactions between situational constraints in the family and the workplace. To examine the relationship of situational variables and personality characteristics to career-related self-efficacy expectations and life satisfaction in women, 94 college women completed a questionnaire…

Research suggests that depression is associated with low self-efficacy expectancies and that enhancement of self-efficacy expectancies may be effective in the relief of depressive symptoms. To examine the causal relationships between self-efficacy expectancies for interpersonal skills and depressed mood, two independent experiments were conducted.…

The purpose of this study was to learn more specific research questions and hypotheses for more rigorous research about the life situation and personal experiences of youths who work. 272 youths were interviewed. Select findings from 51 cases are presented on the youth's orientation to their future. (Author/RC)

The native speaker's knowledge of his language is characterized as a grammar of expectancy that incorporates pragmatic knowledge of the world. Thus, in teaching a second language, the student must be allowed to take advantage of previously acquired expectations about situations while learning a new grammar of expectancy. (Author/LG)

In attempting to understand the complex effects of mutual eye contact, article examined some of the reasons one person would want to see another, regardless of whether the other can or would want to reciprocate the look. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the performance of students as they are influenced by their teachers. (RK)

Article provided guidelines for supervising teachers or supervisors to keep in mind when evaluating a student teacher. (Author/RK)

Ninety-four engineers were asked to describe their supervisors' leadership style, to indicate their expectancies whether performing effectively in their jobs would lead to job rewards and the valence of these rewards. Results indicated that leader consideration and employee expectancies operate in joint fashions to affect job performance. (Author)

This study, using Hyman Rodman's concept "value stretch" in an attempt to resolve the long-standing controversy over the existence of universal versus class-differentiated success values in American society, surveys white boys from four Massachusetts high schools. (Author/JH)

Author devoted himself primarily to a discussion of Beardsley's view of aesthetic experience and attempted to see what conclusions about aesthetic experience could be drawn as a result of reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of Beardsley's theory. (Author/RK)

Article described an attempt to make state assessment into a useful tool for improving educational practice. (Author/RK)

One effective method of motivating the disabled learner is the use of student-selected specific goals for learning tasks. (CL)