Staff at a Sandy Hook, Connecticut high school agreed that content standards are fixed learning goals specifying what a student should know and accomplish; performance standards describe student work products (criteria) to meet these goals. Forthright expectations increased students' accountability for quality work, improved grading objectivity,…

A survey tested a statistical model to determine the influence of college-bound students' intentions to graduate on their expectations of the university experience. Results indicate two expectation levels, a lower level of realistic expectation about what will happen, and a higher level of expectation about what should happen. Divided by ethnic…

Asserts that the expected consequences of ability test results can constrain performance. Predicts that status processes, including status differences and differences in resulting rewards and costs, will produce differences in ability test scores between high-status and low-status individuals. Finds expected performance differences between test…

Discusses differences between girls and boys, focusing on pitfalls and perils specific to each gender, offering research on differences in their development and educational experiences, explaining how the different sexes self-blame, and noting good news for girls related to equal educational opportunities. The paper concludes that the problems of…

Within a generation, everyone will access calculators, word processors, and video cameras as easily as paper, pencils, and books today. Information technologies will predominate. People will be expected to use several symbol systems, apply knowledge, think strategically, manage information, and create as teams. Implications for educators are…

Interviews two poets who teach writing to special education students in various middle and high schools around New York. Discusses expectations, specific writing exercises or poems that work well, and strategies for maintaining focus and control or engaging unengaged students. (SR)

When assessing teacher candidates, there are eight computer-literacy areas to consider: word processing, databases, spreadsheets, presentation programs, online service access, e-mail, trouble-shooting common computer problems, and computer software usage and evaluation. Finalists should be able to demonstrate these competencies. (MLH)

In study 1, 35 veterans in vocational rehabilitation received resume preparation counseling. In study 2, 15 substance abusing veterans in compensated work therapy received vocational assessment feedback to help them use self-knowledge effectively. Both interventions increased career decision-making self-efficacy. (SK)

Explores four aspects of the economic analysis of education. First is changing the concern with observed performance and student outcomes, and second is the potential for experimentation to add to knowledge. Other concerns addressed include the study of the incentive structure in schools and the tendency of analysis to be linked with expectations.…

Both students and teachers can suffer from anonymity. In a spiritual classroom, redemption means deliverance, or liberation from obligatory suffering. Teaching may be viewed as reclaiming students from anonymity (a powerful form of inertia) and leading them toward deliverance. The teacher is simultaneously liberated by believing in a student's…

Explores the progress of Fenway Middle College High School, in its third year as a Boston pilot school (an in-district charter-school alternative). Significant areas of autonomy remain untested. Fenway learned the value of an experienced, caring, diverse faculty; networking and reorganization opportunities; and idealism to counter "bigger is…

Examines who preservice teachers perceived they could and could not be in the middle school classroom as well as who their students could and could not be. Documents how these stories naturalize a way of being in the middle school classroom. Suggests that such narratives covertly authorize particular ways of seeing students. (RS)

Presents findings from the "2001 Graduating Student & Alumni Survey," conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Results reveal that most students: chose majors that will prepare them for a specific line of work; do not expect lofty salaries or unusual perks; have healthy concerns about conducting a successful job search; and…

Examines perceptions and aspirations of 187 undergraduate students about the best and worst possible outcomes for themselves, the United States, and Europe. Results from the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale indicate students were more optimistic about their own futures, less so about Europe, and more pessimistic about America's future.…

The expectations of 23 fourth- and 16 fifth-year teacher education students about teacher evaluation were compared. Students had many similar expectations about evaluation and feedback, but fourth-year students were more concerned with the tone of the evaluation while fifth-year students were more concerned about its content. (SLD)