This paper utilizes a case study approach to identify the ideosyncratic variables related to the success or failure of educational change efforts. Some of the variables discussed include ethnic, economic, religious, and military factors; and national and local problems. Ways of testing generalizations developed in this manner are also proposed.…

Despite current attention given to the influence of star athletes' biorhythms, the author's studies lead him to the conclusion that biorhythms do not mediate behavior in sport. (Editor)

Ninety students were pretested and posttested in an accounting principles course to determine how expectations and perceptions of self-control affected their grade on an examination and how the grade changed their perceptions. Students who did poorer than anticipated on the test exhibited some expectancy shifts. (CH)

Confirms the hypothesis that young children can make relatively realistic judgements about future performance if their attention is directed to past performance information. Sixty four-year-olds predicted performance outcomes for themselves or for another child after a series of failures. Results depended on rewards and the salience of past…

Estimates proportions and changes in the incidence of suicide attempts in Denmark. There were high increases among adolescents, but the increase was due to the fact that more and more men attempted suicide; suggests as a new phenomenon more male than female suicide attempters. (Author/ABB)

Academic success groups were implemented for middle school students with failing grades in which time management and study skills were emphasized. Students set their own goals, invited classroom teachers to respond to questions, and examined roles of ancillary school personnel. (CL)

This report addresses the complexity of problems associated with traditional comprehensive high schools. It examines why, despite repeated calls for reform, and various efforts aimed at reform, evidence suggests that what transpires for students inside the high school classroom remains relatively impervious to change. A picture of the terrain of…

This study investigated children's responses to failed attempts at reaching possible and impossible goals, and their beliefs about the efficacy of wishing as a magical solution in such situations. Preschoolers were presented with failure scenarios in three different formats: a standard picture book presentation, scenarios enacted in real life by…

A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)

Reducing failure in the schools is the main task investigated in this interview. (BB)

A well-educated teacher equipped with diverse reading materials is the best single answer to the reading problem. (Author)

One in a series of nine articles in a section entitled, "Electronic Computer Program and Accounting Machine Procedures.

Presents an analytical framework based on a threefold classification--unequivocal failure, "satisficing," and unequivocal success--and four basic role climates--apathetic, frustrating, tense, and tranquil--that is applied to the elementary school principalship. (Author/WD)