Stresses the importance of teacher experiences of students at preschool or elementary school. Discusses the effect of a naive mathematical expert, a content area resource person lacking of formal experience with primary grade level instruction, at primary grade classroom. (YP)

American students devote only about 20 percent of their waking hours to learning tasks. Academic effort in high school is generally not well signaled to colleges and employers. Educators can make studying pay off by offering school-based rewards, providing diplomas certifying various competencies, and challenging college-bound students with…

Overall teaching effectiveness (OTE) was computed from student evaluations of teacher performance in a university business school. Class size, teaching assistants, and perception of class difficulty did not negatively affect OTE, but students' grade expectations had a significant influence. (SK)

High rates of student failure must be seen as unacceptable. Instructional specialists can work with teachers who fail large numbers of students and help the teacher be more successful. (MLF)

Administrators, deans, and department chairs in undergraduate intensive colleges of pharmacy must encourage faculty research with not only words and exhortations but also with resources. Institutional support of faculty research must not be seen as diverting money from the instructional enterprise but as enhancing it. (MSE)

The predictions that 48 students with deafness in grades 4-8 made while reading narrative text were analyzed to explore the influence of the children's expectations for text structure and content on reading comprehension. Findings indicated that interacting at a deep level with narrative text was more related to reader characteristics than to…

Compared preschool and kindergarten teachers' expectations for children's verbal interaction. Found that preschool teachers encouraged more talking than did kindergarten teachers. Teachers who reported they encouraged children's verbal participation during teacher-directed activities were also more tolerant of verbal infractions than those who did…

Interviews were conducted with 82 students in secondary and postsecondary career-oriented programs (tech prep, career academies, apprenticeships, and the rest). Four elements characterized successful programs: supportive environment, access to varied curricular opportunities, safe environment conducive to learning, and a culture of high…

The example of an adult teacher of English as a Second Language illustrates that, in attempting to build learner trust, dilemmas between creating a safe learning environment and holding students academically accountable are normal. Multiple forms of trusting relationships may conflict; educators should view trust as not only establishing rapport…

A small-scale study in the United Kingdom is reported that affirmed some important contextual preconditions for teachers to consider when setting up small-group talk. The conditions relate to pupils' expectations about their audience and purpose. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/LB)

A case study provides an example of a naturalistic investigation that shows how a cultural diversity teacher preparation program influenced one preservice teacher. The story of this white female illustrates the social complexity of a teacher education program in which human interaction and institutional expectation may prevent multiculturalism…

The implications for educational and employment testing of recent measurement, social, and policy issues are compared and contrasted. Changes are proposed relative to technical conceptualization of assessment, an increased focus on performance-based evaluation, and expanded expectations and uses of assessment. (SLD)

Recent research is described in which female university students did worse than male students in quantitative tasks but were also taught in a manner which disadvantaged them relative to males. Some comments on mediation of expectancies as they relate to gender roles, practical suggestions, and implications for counseling activities are outlined.…

Questionnaire responses from 73 Asian and 255 Caucasian clients at a university counseling center compared rating of counseling helpfulness, counselor characteristics, and other reactions to counseling. The Asians rated counseling as less helpful for personal-emotional concerns, and rated their counselors as less competent than did the Caucasians.…

Includes "Will We Serve the Academically Disadvantaged?" (Iverson); "Using Centers of Learning to Reach Academically Disadvantaged Students" (Gentry); "Georgia's Special Lamb Project Adoption Program" (Farmer); "Teacher Expectations" (Powers); "Providing Instruction for Special Populations" (Jewell); and "The Educational Reform Movement and…