Reports on a three-year interagency collaborative effort between clinicians and state children's services workers who treat child victims of sexual abuse. Discusses client characteristics, treatment provided, and expectations of state social workers and treatment workers. (NH)

Synthesizes the conclusions drawn from a literature review on principles for motivating students to learn. Outlines numerous pointers for creating essential learning preconditions and for motivating, including maintaining high expectations, supplying extrinsic incentives, and capitalizing on students' intrinsic motivation. Provides strategies for…

By reorganizing all aspects of schooling, Johnson City (New York) schools have raised standards and academic achievement in a predominantly lower middle class factory town. Test scores and five "exit behaviors" (high self-esteem, high cognitive ability, good problem-solving and communication skills, self-directed learning behavior, and…

Good grades on a report card do not necessarily mean the material has been comprehended. This article examines the relative worth of grades; extra credit assignments; categorizing students into A, B, or C boxes; and the role of parental pressures for higher grades. Grading systems should be subordinate to true learning motivation. (MLH)

As parents expect schools to take greater responsibility for their children, schools must demand parent involvement that goes beyond volunteerism. To close the growing distance between home and school, parental energies have been channeled into diverse activities, including alcohol education programs, monthly newsletters, tutoring, field trips,…

The problem of balancing personal and professional aspirations is a principal source of stress in faculty lives, but it has not been addressed by academia. (Author/MSE)

Provides perspectives on the process of perceiving another person while interacting with that person. Offers a social interaction approach in contrast to previous approaches that treat the perceiver as a passive information processor. Proposes that each person constructs a significant part of the social reality that one confronts. (ML)

Women from five Canadian universities overestimated their final grades less often and underestimated them more often than men did. No sex-related difference was found in level of confidence to complete the bachelor's program, but women expressed less confidence in their ability to obtain the doctorate. (MNS)

The effective principal balances personal job expectations against those of the district and the school community when choosing an administrative style and deciding how much change can be tolerated. A personal log or calendar can help substantiate leadership or managerial preferences and determine future priorities. Two references are included.…

A study of children's expectancies about their general success or failure in adult life revealed that the overwhelming majority were quite optimistic and minimally pessimistic. Children's optimism or pessimism about their distant future was not related to their current social success or failure. (DR)

Social strategies and expectations as components of social competence were examined. Results indicated that high-competent subjects reported more original (not prompted) positive strategies, and more cognitions. Low-competent subjects made more negative statements when describing the dyad they had formed with the confederate, and were more…

Compared fertility expectations of young non-Mormon females living in Utah (2.4 children) with those of young Mormon females in Utah (4.4 children). Findings suggest that residence in a high fertility area per se does not affect fertility and that Mormon/non-Mormon fertility differences are likely to persist into the foreseeable future. (BH)

"Dumb jocks" are not born, they are being systematically created. Black student athletes suffer from the outset from disadvantages: the myth of innate Black athletic superiority, the stereotype of the dumb Black, and social forces determining a vulnerability to exploitation. (MSE)

This investigation was designed to determine how professional educators perceived the role expectations of associated teacher centers. Findings indicated that role expectations associated with inservice teachers were the most definitive and positive. Those for parents/community were least satisfactory in terms of importance/relevance, presence,…

Uses an examination of the expectancy variable in educational research to contend that there are weaknesses associated with conceptualizing teacher expectations of student performance and with the use of teacher expectations in research. Includes recommendations regarding the treatment of the expectation variable in future educational research.…