A small-scale study in the United Kingdom is reported that affirmed some important contextual preconditions for teachers to consider when setting up small-group talk. The conditions relate to pupils' expectations about their audience and purpose. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/LB)

A case study provides an example of a naturalistic investigation that shows how a cultural diversity teacher preparation program influenced one preservice teacher. The story of this white female illustrates the social complexity of a teacher education program in which human interaction and institutional expectation may prevent multiculturalism…

The implications for educational and employment testing of recent measurement, social, and policy issues are compared and contrasted. Changes are proposed relative to technical conceptualization of assessment, an increased focus on performance-based evaluation, and expanded expectations and uses of assessment. (SLD)

Recent research is described in which female university students did worse than male students in quantitative tasks but were also taught in a manner which disadvantaged them relative to males. Some comments on mediation of expectancies as they relate to gender roles, practical suggestions, and implications for counseling activities are outlined.…

Questionnaire responses from 73 Asian and 255 Caucasian clients at a university counseling center compared rating of counseling helpfulness, counselor characteristics, and other reactions to counseling. The Asians rated counseling as less helpful for personal-emotional concerns, and rated their counselors as less competent than did the Caucasians.…

Includes "Will We Serve the Academically Disadvantaged?" (Iverson); "Using Centers of Learning to Reach Academically Disadvantaged Students" (Gentry); "Georgia's Special Lamb Project Adoption Program" (Farmer); "Teacher Expectations" (Powers); "Providing Instruction for Special Populations" (Jewell); and "The Educational Reform Movement and…

Discusses transitional situations of concurrent computer-based training (CBT) that occur in organizations, and provides instructional designers with adaptable checklists to use when communicating with managers and programmers about the tasks performed and the tools needed in designing and developing CBT. Tables present steps, applications,…

Reports results of a study of the relationship of mood regulation expectancies with depressive symptoms and coping ability among 96 adults aged 65 years or older from non-nursing home residential communities and organizations. Relations of hassles and expectancies with coping responses were weaker than those found previously in younger samples.…

Examined the effects of perceived control and close alternative outcomes on counterfactual generation (thoughts of what could have been). Subjects played a "wheel of fortune" game in which they controlled one of two wheels. Results supported the idea that people generate counterfactuals about events over which they have perceived…

Examined impact of outcome controllability on counterfactual thoughts (thoughts of what could have been). Two studies showed that outcome controllability affected counterfactual direction: thoughts on how things could have been better were more frequent following controllable outcomes, and thoughts on how things could have been worse followed…

Attempts to help teachers reflect on classroom practices to encourage more participation in mathematics by all students, especially African Americans. Discusses learning styles of African Americans, culture-fair curriculum, and teacher expectations of African Americans. (14 references) (MKR)

The biggest problems with public schools is that they are public, big, compulsory, and pluralistic. Their powerlessness to achieve a broad consensus for common methods of socialization harms the education of both students who come to school already socialized and those whose background of deprivation did not give them these social values. (SK)

The expectations of college students with no children for their future children's behavior as toddlers and for their own behavior as parents was assessed. Unique predictors for males were family environment and experience with children; for females, experience with children and psychological well-being. (Authors/GH)

Compared to baseline scores, self-efficacy and feelings of preparedness to teach increased for student teachers after the first and second terms of a three-term revised University of British Columbia postdegree teacher education program. There were no significant differences by gender or subject specialization. Contains 53 references. (SV)

Examined low-income teenagers' aspirations and expectations related to high school graduation, college attendance, and work. Personal interviews with 40 low-income seventh through twelfth graders revealed that most respondents expected to graduate from high school, felt graduation would benefit them in future, and thought their parents wanted them…