This book explores how standards are negotiated and created within classrooms, addressing how they actually play out in classrooms from the point of view of students and teachers. It follows the experiences of students and teachers at urban Powell High School who wrestled with curricula designed to expand their achievement. The book presents four…

This paper describes the Survey of Effective School Practices, which began in 1995-96 to examine key characteristics, common elements, and unique qualities that contributed to having several elementary schools and one middle school in a large Texas school district become state recognized or exemplary. The study involved a survey instrument that…

Faculty and students in colleges of arts and sciences in four universities were surveyed for their perceptions of student and adviser responsibility in the advising process, including counseling about personal problems, providing information on extracurricular activities, realizing student potential, monitoring academic progress, and the mechanics…

Investigates 81 first, second, and third-generation Mexican American male adolescents to test whether integration with traditional Mexican American culture promotes healthy psychological adjustment and less juvenile delinquency. Finds no differences in educational aspiration, but that third-generation subjects had lower expectations, higher…

Several explanations have been advanced for sex differences in reading achievement, including hypotheses based on physical maturation, female teacher bias, teacher discrimination, feminization of reading, differential response to pupil behaviors, and sex-relevant teaching styles. Evidence for and against each of these hypotheses is presented, and…

Discusses how students can be motivated by clear expectations, feedback, rewards, praise, grading, and the categorization of goals. Highlights Maslow's hierarchy of needs and its application to motivation. Summarizes motivational techniques used at two universities and one business: role playing in teacher training for secondary physical…

Interviews with doctoral students and supervisors in physics, mathematics, and engineering attending nine English universities investigated student expectations of doctoral supervision, extent to which expectations were met, and the ways in which supervision changes as the doctoral process progresses. Issues in training of PhD supervisors, their…

Explores particular characteristics that better secondary schools might possess. The exploration is based on five conditions of better schools, all of which support teachers and students in developing effective schools. The author moves the responsibility for school reform from the school to the life and behaviors of the community in which the…

Describes a technological instrument for use in physical education teacher education. Designed to use technology to combine useful features of qualitative instruments with an expanded capability of traditional systematic observation, the instrument offers more accurate descriptions of highly interactive gymnasiums. It provides ongoing evaluation…

This study investigated the effect of extended wait-time versus short wait-time on ninth graders' academic achievement, as well as on gender equity and student attitudes toward a course. Surveys indicated students with more wait-time had greater gain in academic achievement. Females received longer wait-time in both experimental and control…

A study examined perceptions of 136 middle school teachers of African American males' aggression, achievement, and need for special education services based on cultural movement styles. Teachers perceived students with African American movement styles as lower in achievement, higher in aggression, and more likely to need special education…

A study examined the experiences of three male and three female newly employed full-time education faculty at a research university and compared them with administrator expectations and perceptions. Five recurring themes emerged: collegiality, school expectations of new faculty, the department chair's role, workload, and feelings of new faculty…

In a national sample of 10,416 high school seniors, rural students had lower educational and occupational aspirations than urban or suburban students, but rural students' aspirations were consistent with the perceived expectations of their parents and teachers. (SV)

Wisconsin teachers (N=416) who had preservice multicultural education training were surveyed by mail to discover what they were doing in their classrooms to attend to diversity based on race and ethnicity, gender, and social class in the areas of curriculum and material, expectations, instructions, and student-student relationships. (IAH)

Two groups were asked to judge teachers' willingness to tolerate inappropriate behaviors in regular classrooms. Seventy-four teachers in regular classes judged themselves, and 28 special education teachers predicted how regular teachers might respond. Results showed that special education teachers were quite accurate in their judgments of regular…