A teacher's letter to a student explains what his B grade for the course does and does not represent in terms of the student's achievement or success as a human being or in future accomplishments. (MSE)

This article reviews self-fulfilling prophecies in three sequential stages: (1) teachers develop expectations, (2) teachers treat students differently depending on expectations, and (3) students react to treatment in expectancy-confirming ways. The focus is on social and psychological events at each stage, causal processes linking stages, and…

After discussing the concepts of "white" and "black" masculinity, the article discusses the following factors constraining black male role assumption: (1) structural constraints; (2) societal constraints; (3) dysfunctional socialization messages; and (4) psychological factors. Three theories on black masculinity are discussed and their weaknesses…

Examines the influence of perceived parental expectations on Chinese children's school performance in mathematics. (HOD)

In their role as counselors and advisers, college admissions officers can enhance student retention by helping prospective students develop reasonable expectations about their undergraduate education and by helping them choose the institution that is best for them. (MSE)

An observer discusses factors in the choice of medicine as a career, trends in medical school enrollment and student characteristics, problems posed for medicine by those factors and trends, and their sources and solutions in current medical education. (MSE)

Counseling expectations, interaction patterns, and outcome ratings of 45 clients and their counselors in a university counseling center are examined as a function of client continuation in counseling. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate aspiration, expectation, and parental influence and the extent to which these variables manifest themselves among 210 Upward Bound students in three institutions. (Author/LMO)

Implications of locus of control expectancy for counselor effectiveness are examined in an intensive case study of two matched counseling pairs. (Author)

Basic assumptions of an ecological-behavioral view of assessing behavior disordered students are reviewed along with a proposed method for ecological analysis and specific techniques for measuring ecological variables (such as environmental units, behaviors of significant others, and behavioral expectations). The use of such information in program…

The role and functions of university department heads as analyzed in the literature are outlined and compared with the perceptions and expectations of the staff of eight departments in one Australian university, who attached great importance to the administrator's function of encouragement. (MSE)

Reports on a survey of seventh- and eleventh-grade students showing that students want both love and authority from their teachers. (FL)

Obtained ratings of counseling center staff perceptions of changes in client-presenting problems, changes in agency expectations to provide nine service-related tasks, and a staff report of their comfort and skill in performing these tasks. Staff members perceived client problems changing from informational/educational to more serious…

Examined college women's perceptions of unwanted intercourse. Results indicated that highly negative feelings are attributed to the man in the refuse situation, and to the majority of the women in both the accept and refuse situations. A theory of unwanted intercourse is proposed that attributes its high incidence to four societal norms.…

Relationships among teacher expectation, social interactions, and student performance are studied in this article. An educational research model was developed to provide a way of establishing connections in how research findings could be used in forming effective instructional strategies. Methods of model construction are given. (Author/DF)