Reports on a short-term longitudinal study identifying preparenting behaviors and attitudes that predict different aspects of fathering: caretaking, playfulness, and satisfaction with fatherhood. The quality and nature of the marital relationship were found to be significantly related to all aspects of fathering. (BJD)

Focuses upon the nature of expectations that instructor and student bring to the criminal justice course. Examines the effect of the setting on expectations and obstacles to effective teaching in prisons. (JOW)

Argues that the problems of achieving educational excellence are more complex and difficult than envisioned by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. (RH)

After receiving varying combinations of positive and negative communications on reading achievement, classroom behavior, and learning style from a "resource teacher" on a 12-year-old boy identified as learning disabled, 129 classroom teachers completed the "Regular Educator Expectancy Scale-Revised." Results confirmed…

Compared the assumptions of 100 male and female employees about colleagues' views of their performance on a joint task. Results indicated women anticipated more blame for a joint failure, less credit for a joint success, and a work image of lesser effectiveness, regardless of the co-worker's sex. (JAC)

Administered a questionnaire on expected effects of alcohol to 150 college students. Results showed that subjects expected alcohol to affect other people more than themselves for both positive and negative effects. Moderate and heavy drinkers expected as much pleasure from alcohol as they expected others to receive. (Author/LLL)

In an attempt to extend the "nomological network" of the hopelessness dimension, this research examines the relationship between negative expectancies about the future and two theoretically relevant constructs: generalized expectancies for reinforcement, and depression. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to present results of the study conducted to explore students' expectations related to development of student interest in physics and physics lesson. The concept of interest is the affective description of this connection between person and objects. Even though interest is assumed to be important for its role in…

The study of linear functions is important as it provides students with their first experience of identifying and interpreting the relationship between two dependent variables. This paper, which builds on previous research, reports a study undertaken with 64 year 9 students from two Australian schools. Linear functions were introduced to these…

This paper analyzes and compares the experimentalist philosophy of John Dewey with a current educational emphasis which advocates high standards and high expectations for all students. Advocates of high standards and high expectations call for standards written before instruction by people removed from the local classroom. The standards are to be…

Subjects were 55 male and 86 female undergraduates who completed the following: (1) Rotter's I-E Scale; (2) the IPAT Anxiety Scale, and (3) a questionnaire about expectations of achieving valued goals. Findings indicate that the well documented relationship between locus of control and anxiety holds for both males and females and that a lower…

New efforts in career education focus largely upon the idea of work, and its multiple and related forms, without indicating an awareness that sexist prejudices still pervade the entire curriculum and are subtly reflected in the attitudes of the school personnel. (Author/CB)

In an attempt to gain insight into factors influencing college course evaluations, 759 students were questioned at both the beginning and end of the term concerning their feelings about the instructor and course, and about their expectations concerning their grade achievement. (Authors)