Findings are interpreted to support the hypothesis that the subjective probability induced by normative feedback mediates performance via an experimentally produced motive-like orientation. (Author/RC)

The nonpromoted group of pupils in this study continued to increase their self-concept scores significantly while scores of the borderline and promoted groups dropped slightly but significantly. (Author/IRT)

The communication effectiveness of 15 learning disabled and 15 control adolescent boys was compared employing a referential task entailing repeated communication failure. The learning disabled boys provided less effective messages and their descriptions tended toward egocentricity. (Author/DB)

A review of the research on metacognition explores the impact of this concept on learning-disabled individuals, focusing on the positive effects of such research on teaching and on the importance of broadening teachers' understanding of their learning-disabled students' academic failures. (Author/CB)

Investigated students' explanations as to the causes of success or failure in music. Results indicate that students tend to cite internal reasons for success or failure in music. Implications for teaching are drawn. (JDH)

Communicative adjustments of nonhandicapped preschool children addressing developmentally delayed companions were evaluated for their effectiveness and appropriateness. Behavior-request episodes in which initial failure had occurred were analyzed, and sequences of interactions were tracked within episodes until some form of resolution was…

Playing "dumb" can earn students easier classes, lower expectations, reduced pressure, and individual attention. Schools can stop rewarding failure by making remedial classes difficult, backing up homework policies with unappealing alternatives, providing penalties for attendance violations, and deglamorizing alternatives to regular programs. (PGD)

Discusses some of the reasons for the failure of the Osborne Computer Corporation, including Adam Osborne's personality and background, the people he selected to run the company, and lack of financial controls. (MBR)

Results suggested that: many young school failures are inefficient or poor task planners and organizers; that this characteristic may be related to lagging or deficient language skills rather than spatial organizing skills; and that failure may result from specific cognitive deficiencies and/or failure to effectively organize available cognitive…

The use in education of management techniques developed for industry is discussed, the rules teachers should consider before such techniques are employed, and some of the common causes of the failure of these techniques in education are examined. (Author/RK)

Outlines the establishment of a program to aid children who are seriously behind in basic math and reading skills and seeks specific causes and provides minimal solutions directed at increasing the child's standard performance. (Author)

One reason for the failure of UNESCO's literacy campaign in Third World Countries has been lack of commitment by many countries. Tanzania's successful literacy program is attributed to the utilization of all educated persons as teachers. UNESCO is intensifying its efforts to persuade governments toward commitment and action to eradicate…

The reason for the failure of a training program was the lack of a clear definition of the trainee's needs. The following goals were formulated for a new training program: regroup, identify needs, set objectives, general alternatives, evaluate alternatives, design and develop the program, and test the program. (EC)

This paper looks at an idea that the fundamental "social" purpose of college composition is not to expand but to contract students' capacities to function in and transform their world. The paper manifests interest in this conception of composition for intellectual, historical, and political reasons--historically, it addresses the…

Children exposed to violence are at higher risk of behavior problems and academic failure, as well as chronic delinquency and adult criminal behavior. This bulletin provides information about resources that are available to help improve the system's response to child victims and witnesses of violence. Information is provided about 14 private…