Synthesizes the general results of a year-long study of teachers in a suburban high school in New York that explored teachers' perceptions of their roles and responsibilities. The findings are presented here to help principals better coordinate their efforts with teachers to improve schools. (WD)

Day treatment teachers (N=5), day treatment social workers (N=6), and district teachers (N=7) were asked to rate each of 83 behaviors on a five-point scale indicating the degree to which that behavior would impair a severely behavior disordered child's ability to function in a special education classroom within the district. (SBH)

Mothers were asked to predict their children's responses to standardized intelligence test items. Negative correlation was expected between inaccurate maternal knowledge of children's ability and degree of children's psychological development. False maternal predictions correlated - .80 with correct children's responses. Nearly all of the…

Instructor expressiveness and lecture content were combined with instructor reputation in a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design to assess interaction effects. Results indicated that reputation interacted with expressiveness but not content, in which students rated positive, high-expressive instructors more favorably than negative, high-expressive…

The evidence presented suggests that students in their first year of comprehensive school education in physics and biology did not display any increase in their interest in these subjects during the academic year. It is unknown how best to help girls towards a favorable interest in physical science. (Author/KC)

The author cites personality studies and the history of Chicano labor activism to refute cultural determinist claims that fatalism and low self-concept are inherent in Mexican American culture and that these traits are responsible for the high attrition rates and low educational attainment of this group. (Author/SJL)

Black student satisfaction at predominantly White universities in the deep South may not be as low as some observers have suggested. This study found Black student satisfaction to be significantly lower than that of White students only with respect to the university's system of rewards. (Author)

Undergraduates were induced to expect a recall or recognition test and then to remember a critical list consisting of both high-frequency and low-frequency words. Groups received either an expected or unexpected recall or recognition test. People expecting recall did better, especially with high-frequency words. (Author/RD)

This study examined how a group of kindergartners anticipated and actually experienced school. Interviewed in July, before starting kindergarten, then again in April, the children were asked to describe their own and the teacher's role, activities they engaged in, and what rules or constraints on child behavior existed. (Author/SJL)

Discusses the student consumer movement and the contractual relationships between students and colleges. Nearly two-thirds of responding colleges failed to respond to student consumer expectations in their publications. Student personnel administrators must provide leadership to translate consumer awareness into action. (JAC)

Subjects from four physics or literature classes expected a delayed or an immediate test after their class. All were tested immediately. Male subjects expecting the immediate test performed better than males expecting a delayed test. Absence of interaction effects with personality measurement suggested the inadequacy of the goal gradient…

Explores the process by which young rural women translate adolescent aspirations for their own adult achievements and those of hypothetical "future" husbands into attainment patterns early in the life course. Stresses the influence of educational aspirations and attainment as prime factors of status attainment. (Author/JD)

Stresses increasing need for educators to evaluate and modify their attitudes and behavior as sex role models, in order to avoid negative influences for students, in terms of achievement, career, marriage, and general psychological well-being. (JD)

Counselor-trainees received positive or negative feedback about their performance in a client interview. The trainees' internal-external locus of control orientation had no significant influence on their reaction, but the type of feedback did. "Success" feedback increased trainees' expectancy, willingness to improve, and receptivity to…

In Britain recent studies of the headmaster role have relied mainly on data obtained from the heads themselves. Here the views of teachers and members of local boards of education are examined. (Author/RK)