One hundred thirteen elementary students were tested using four standardized instruments; their teachers rated each student on eight bipolar constructs and predicted scores. Results indicate that students who are perceived positively receive higher score predictions, even when academic competence is controlled. Boys seemed to be especially subject…

The Skills for Growing pilot program was launched in 10 U.S. and Canadian schools during 1987-1988. This research-based project is founded on six philosophical assumptions: administrative leadership, positive expectations, visible rewards, a trusting climate, community involvement, and student participation. The program curriculum is described.…

The Comer Model is the catalyst that helped turn around a Newport News, Virginia, primary school. Founded by James Comer in the late 1960s, the model stresses schooling's main purpose--advancing students' social, emotional, academic development toward the goal of successful citizenship. This can be achieved through a collaborative,…

A survey was conducted of 38 employers' expectations and evaluation of job performance of workers with mild intellectual disability in Hong Kong. Of 25 work-related attributes, employer ratings showed that employees with intellectual disabilities exceeded expectations in 7 aspects and performed below expectation in 5 aspects. (Author/DB)

In interviews with 44 older learners and 11 teachers, reciprocity emerged as central to teacher-learner relationships. Responses identified the affective and cognitive dimensions of what is given by teachers and learners and what is expected and received by them. (SK)

Environmental and contextual influences shape academic and career interests through their impact on self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations. Stereotypes, gender-role expectations, and peer pressure may truncate adolescent career choices, especially those forming gay or lesbian sexual identities. (SK)

In a survey, 214 of 232 Mississippi county extension coordinators, staff, and district/state administrators rated coordinators' administrative roles as important but had different expectations and perceptions of behavior for role performance. Inservice training should clarify expectations and emphasize four roles: program administration and…

Results of a study with children ages three to eight indicated that children's understanding of the concept of surprise changes between three and five years of age. Younger children employed a principle of desirability, whereas older children employed principles of belief violation, indicating that children's understanding of the concept of…

An instrument to measure cocaine-related expectancies across a continuum of use, the Cocaine Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ), was developed and tested with 765 college students and 87 cocaine abusers. Expectancy factors identified by the CEQ were found to be powerful predictors of cocaine use. (SLD)

"Star" urban teachers are driven by the desire to develop good people. Their undergirding ideology is high expectations for low-income students, and they see their role as fundamentally different from that of other teachers. (SK)

To survive the difficult transition to site-based management, principals must look and feel sharp, learn the language of effective teaching and learning, be visible, train teachers in decision making and consensus building, promote a school vision, be truthful, make heroes and heroines of others, have high expectations, evaluate performance, and…

Surveyed 72 counseling psychologists regarding perceptions of clients' unrealistic expectations about counseling. Most perceived some clients as having unrealistically high expectations about need for concreteness; likelihood of counselor nurturance, directiveness, and empathy; and probability of beneficial outcome; and unrealistically low…

Examined relationships between trainees' (n=57) cognitive style, program membership, amount of practicum experience, and needs and expectations for supervision. Results from trainees from three graduate programs at one university suggest that trainees' expectations and needs regarding supervisory experience differed by amount of practicum…

A psychological contract is a set of unwritten reciprocal expectations between trainee and training program. Public agency trainers must establish and manage psychological contracts through clearly defined objectives and development of a learning climate that leads to effective training. (SK)

Notes, when client, counselor, and those in client's relevant environments hold differing conceptions of disability, and hence conflicting expectations of the rehabilitation process, that process may be impeded. Proposes an approach to conceptualizing this potential problem using Hershenson's model of faith, logic, and power as successive…