Presents ideas and development strategies aimed at minimizing the unanticipated obstacles often encountered when implementing a performance support system, especially an integrated performance support system (IPSS). Highlights include a history of performance support systems; problems; justification, including a cost benefit analysis; planning;…

Defines pseudotransactionality as writing that is patently designed by a student to meet teacher expectations rather than to perform the "real" function the teacher has suggested. Attempts to analyze the problem from a sociohistorical perspective, using M. Bakhtin's theory of genre and Vygotskian activity theory. Suggests how this…

Outlines five perspectives addressing alternate aspects of the development of children's source monitoring: source-monitoring theory, fuzzy-trace theory, schema theory, person-based perspective, and mental-state reasoning model. Discusses research areas with relation to forensic developmental psychology: agent identity, prospective processing,…

Nurses (n=235) participating in professional development were asked to recall how they were taught, their role in learning, and their opinion of good teaching practice. Results showed their anxiety about formal learning, recognition of the need for continuing learning, and the need to develop reflective abilities. (SK)

Examines relationships between depression, hopelessness, actual-ideal self-discrepancies (AISDs), and clients' expectations about counseling among 80 college students. Less hopeless participants expected more improvement from and more commitment to counseling. No significant relationships were found between depression or AISDs and expectations…

A survey of 94 teachers who served as cooperating teachers or mentored beginning teachers indicated that, despite few extrinsic rewards, they were motivated to undertake these roles; many had no formal preparation for them. Without clear expectations and high-quality training, their ability to enhance student and beginning teachers' practice may…

Interviews of 69 adults who had participated in the Youth Development Study as adolescents identified occupational decision-making themes: unfulfilled expectations, postponement of decisions, turning points, resources, and obstacles. Results suggest a need for changing and strengthening social policy especially related to career counseling.…

Contradictory expectations facing community development practitioners include innovation versus bureaucratic accountability and professionalization versus grassroots activism. Four operating frameworks affect practice: charity, welfare state, activism, and market. In some instances, these frameworks and their related discourses are being fused,…

Examined education-community partnerships from the viewpoint of the community partners. Analyses based on three education-community partnerships, two successful and one failed, show the importance of understanding motivations and expectations. Describes lessons learned through such partnerships. (SLD)

Assessed relation between conceptual system functioning and expectations about counseling by linking client expectations to a stable personality dimension and providing the conceptual system model, rather than the conceptual level, as the theoretical rationale in 60 counseling clients. Results support need to consider influence of conceptual…

Presents data suggesting that phenomenon of home teams losing decisive championship games in professional sports is only true for championship series involving New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, and Montreal Canadians. Argues that home audiences of recurrent champions expect their teams to win. Pressure is communicated to members of recurrent…

A scale assessing career expectations was completed by 920 master of business administration students. Expectations of prestige, interpersonal influence, and mobility did not differ by gender, nationality, or undergraduate background. High means for influence and career exploration suggest that many have not yet set occupational goals. (SK)

Of a group of 91 trainees, 35 had a pretraining expectations discussion and posttraining follow-up with their managers and 35 did not. Those who received management support had significantly higher transfer and a more positive perception of the forces in the work environment encouraging transfer. (SK)

The Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire, Memory Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and measures of depression and health status were completed by 169 adults over 55 in Texas and Louisiana. External memory strategies (lists, notes) were used more often than internal (elaboration, rehearsal). Memory efficacy decreased significantly with age, and anxiety…

Compared stress and coping levels of 108 older adults who recently lost their spouses with expectations of stress and coping reported by 85 matched nonbereaved controls. Although bereaved reported moderately high stress levels over two years, their stress scores were lower and coping scores higher than what nonbereaved anticipated their levels…