John Gardner reflects on everything from current efforts to improve the first-year experience to the assessment movement, student expectations of college, professional preparation for student affairs, and more. (Author)

Results of a study of 31 women majoring in engineering and 43 women majoring in mathematics education showed the following variables distinguished between the two groups: success expectations for traditional and nontraditional occupations, self-efficacy for traditional occupations, and outcome desirability. (SK)

Women may attempt to cope with conflicting school and family roles by trying to work harder, altering personal expectations or behavior, or altering externally imposed expectations. When possible, continuing educators can help by transforming the inflexibilities of higher education. (SK)

Argues that a moralistic approach to plagiarism is not likely to make the problem disappear. New thinking about plagiarism and pedagogy must take its complexity into account, since plagiarism is not always the result of a willful desire to deceive, but may reflect a misunderstanding of the nature of work in the discipline. (SLD)

Path analysis of the results of an information technology proficiency exam, computer self-efficacy score, and technology outcome expectation scale for 193 students suggested that academic performance is influenced by computer self-efficacy via the establishment of an academic grade goal. The past performance variable failed to predict academic…

Analyzed the benefits that high school students and their parents expect from higher education in Korea. The majority of students expected a "diverse college experience," while the majority of parents expected "protection from socioeconomic disadvantages from not having higher education." Students' academic ability was an…

Data from 1960s British research on school-to-work transition (n=882) revealed young people's reflections on education, their expectations of employment, and perceptions of a good job. Data show some similarities with the concerns of today's youth. Using historical data such as these allows retesting or reexamination of debates. (Contains 32…

Examines the process of teaching critical thinking in an adult basic education classroom. Introduces an alternative learning process that challenges the traditional model of unquestioning, uncritical acceptance of teacher and text and enables students to become more active and equal participants in learning. (Author/JOW)

Studied issues of leniency in ratings of teachers provided by their students. Data from 224 classes suggest that individuals may form a mental comparison between how they expect to be graded in a given class with how they have been rated, or expected to be rated, in other classes. This comparison then leaves the individual satisfied or…

Seniors (n=20) assessed two job offers with differences in domain (salary/tasks), delay (career-long earnings), and magnitude (initial salary offer). Contrary to discounted utility theory, choices reflected nonconstant discount rates for future salary/tasks (delay effect), lower discount rates for salary/preferred tasks (magnitude effect), and a…

Reports on a three-year inquiry into intertextuality in early grade classrooms. Identifies intertextual conflicts during teacher-class interactions where teachers are reading texts and guiding children to read. Concludes the greater power of mandated syllabi over teachers and the greater power of teachers over children make intertextuality a…

Although no school leader likes media coverage of sensitive issues, handling them forthrightly and candidly benefits everyone. The three major facets of an effective media campaign include realistic expectations of the media, personalizing media relations, and controlling both access and message. (MLH)

Teachers have many expectations for students that are never explicitly verbalized. The Yale Practical Intelligence for School curriculum is based on three kinds of tacit knowledge necessary for adapting to any environment: managing oneself, managing tasks, and working with others. Includes 16 references. (MLH)

Used data from 945 adults to distinguish 6 categories of parental status. Examined extent to which variations in normative expectedness of parental experiences explained differences in well-being. Findings suggest that parental situation effects vary by gender and economic pressures. Childlessness past age 30 had greater negative impact for women;…

When the stimulus to be intercepted traveled at slow or moderate speeds, subjects' (N=18) expectancies did not modify choice reaction time (CRT) and movement time. However, when the stimulus traveled at fast speed, CRT was reduced as a function of event probability, at the cost of more response initiation errors. (IAH)