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Peer reviewedKelley, Paul R.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1971
Descriptors: Anesthesiology, Certification, Examiners, Failure
Peer reviewedKing, James H.; Ellis, Joseph R. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1971
Descriptors: Failure, National Surveys, Teacher Background, Teacher Characteristics
Peer reviewedMacMillan, Donald L.; Knopf, Eddi D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Failure, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Lowther, Malcolm A. – Contemp Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Failure, Secondary School Teachers, Self Evaluation, Student Teachers
Peer reviewedMacMillan, Donald L. – Exceptional Children, 1971
Three specific motivational variables - expectancy for failure, over-directedness, and positive and negative reaction tendencies - are discussed and related research evidence presented. The need for balance of emphasis on motivational and cognitive variables in the special class is cited. (KW)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Failure, Mild Mental Retardation, Motivation
Distefano, M. K., Jr.; and others – J Genet Psychol, 1970
Found through administering of success-failure inventory to 100 adolescents from 7th through 11th grade that success motivation increases and fear of failure decreases during this period. (DR)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences
Fisher, A. D. – Trans-action, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Canada Natives
Hooper, Richard – AV Commun Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Innovation, Educational Problems, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedRitterman, Stuart I.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1982
The performance of 91 first grade students was compared using three screening tests of articulation: the Templin-Darley Screening Test of Articulation, the Screening Deep Test of Articulation, and the Predictive Screening Test of Articulation. There was poor correlation between tests in terms of the particular individuals failed. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Failure
Peer reviewedSork, Thomas J. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1981
Presents a systematic process for performing an analysis of program failure in adult education, including ways to identify the type of failure and questions designed to determine its cause. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Evaluation Methods, Failure
Peer reviewedCovington, Martin V.; Omelich, Carol L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
What happens when explanations externalizing the cause of one's achievement failures are no longer credible? College undergraduates experiencing successive subjective failure in classroom tests gave postdictive explanations for failures, indicated shame, and rated expectancy for future success. Self-worth predictions suggest despair occurs when…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Achievement Need, Helplessness
Peer reviewedSebesta, Sam – Language Arts, 1981
Irreverently examines Rudolph Flesch's theories for teaching a child to read "properly." Alternatives to Flesch's method are also given. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Parent Influence, Phonics, Reading Failure
Peer reviewedPalkovitz, Robin J.; Lore, Richard K. – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Describes a study comparing the test performance of students taking a course in introductory psychology with the quality of notes taken during lectures. Findings showed students failed tests because they did not review and learn the information in their notes. (CK)
Descriptors: Failure, Higher Education, Psychology, Social Science Research
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F.; Grobe, Cary H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
A study of the results of a New Brunswick (Canada) evaluation of writing in grades five, eight, and eleven revealed that teacher-evaluators were more influenced by the length of compositions and their freedom from simple mechanical errors than by students' control of syntax. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedPeck, Dennis L. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1980
Explores the empirical relationship between fatalism and suicide in a population of youthful victims. Content analysis of case histories and suicide notes showed almost one-third experienced fatalistic thoughtways prior to their death. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Theories, Death, Failure
