Examines the ideology and expectations of early screening for linguistic difficulties in young children, discusses effective intervention, and presents an alternative to screening: formative assessment. (SK)

Compared expectations held by male college student athletes (n=50) and nonathletes (n=50) about counseling. Measured expectations by the Expectations about Counseling Brief Form. No significant differences between the two groups were observed. The findings have implications for counselors. (Author/NB)

Parents of academically gifted children expect schools will identify children's talents, play a significant role in talent development, and support excellence and achievement. However, gifted programs either do not exist, are minimal, do not allow for progress, or are insufficient to meet the needs of these children. (SK)

The relationship between teachers' judgments of students' academic achievement and students' performances on an achievement test was investigated (N=12 teachers; N=47 students). Accuracy of teachers' judgments, the relationship between judgments and performances, and the effect of high vs. low achievement status on judgments were studied.…

Examines the perceptions of Israeli school counselors regarding their own and their students' expectations during counseling and their perceptions of the kinds of support both sides expect the counselor to provide. Findings reveal that: counselors attribute higher expectations to their students; students strongly expect to receive instrumental…

Four experiments examined very young infants' expectations about containment events. Found that 2- to 3.5-month-olds recognized that objects could be lowered inside a container with an open but not a closed top. Three-and-a-half-month-olds realized that objects could not pass through the container's back wall and should have moved with it to a new…

Examines the relationship of team cohesion, participant attitude, and performance expectations to actual performance results in a simulation competition. Findings indicate a strong relationship between beginning team cohesion and performance expectations and final game performance, but little relationship between beginning participant attitudes…

Previous econometric studies of relationship between undergraduate debt and postbaccalaureate activity generally do not find an inverse relationship between debt and activity. Multiequation model developed in this article shows that increase in expected educational debt significantly reduces probability that a student expects to enroll in graduate…

Structure plays an important role in current efforts to transform traditional classrooms into collaborative, self-directed learning communities. Teachers work with students to create a sense of order based on shared understandings. The resulting structure has three characteristics: a well-organized classroom environment, predictable daily…

Defines an anti-bias curriculum as accepting the legitimacy of children's home languages, acknowledging all attempts at communication, and promoting active involvement of traditional, extended, and non-traditional families. Examines anti-bias education, language, and literacy. Identifies six tenets of anti-bias educators. Advocates laying the…

A study examined the causal attributions of 36 eighth-grade boys with learning disabilities (LD) for their feelings of loneliness compared to those of 34 typical boys. Students with LD experienced significantly higher levels of loneliness, perceived different causal attribution for their feelings, and had higher expectations of future loneliness.…

Nurses in service fault beginning nurses' insufficient clinical and patient management skills. Nurse educators maintain that practicing nurses do not facilitate the transition of entry-level nurses. More collaboration between teachers and practitioners is needed. (Commentaries by Sally Glen, Patrick Crookes, and Pam Walter follow.) (SK)

Data from 245 male and 257 female adolescents who reported occupational aspirations and expectations in grades 8, 9, and 10 indicated that those who had significant aspiration-expectation discrepancies in one grade made significant changes in aspiration the following year. To the extent the changes were toward more realistic or accessible…

Assessed accuracy of students' preexamination expectancies and postexamination grade evaluations, gender differences in expectations, and the role of experience in expectations with 131 college students. Male students overestimated their grades more than did female students, but only for one of the two courses studied. (SLD)

Upon completing the Teacher Report Form on a randomly selected child in their current classroom, teachers were surveyed about the approaches or strategies they used to formulate their ratings. Rather than the two approaches hypothesized to be foremost, teachers relied primarily on their experience with the child in many different settings.…