The Mathematics Attribution Scale (MAS) (Algebra) was designed to assess attributions of success and failure in algebra to ability, effort, task, and environment. This study examined the MAS (Algebra) for a separate dimension of attributes for success and a dimension of attributes for failure. The two hypothesized dimensions did not emerge.…

Compares the imagery of two poems that deal with the price exacted by athletic success: John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player" and A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young." (RBW)

This review of evaluation findings on Dutch government policy successes and failures points to the influence of political culture on policy effectiveness. Public policy goal attainment is more likely when the government acts purposively, on the basis of relevant information, with power, and with integration. (Author/BS)

The "Test Anxiety Scale for Children" and the "Lie Scale for Children" were administered to 60 children, half of whom were defined by schools as learning disabled (LD). LD subjects were more anxious than the nondisabled, and their test anxiety was significantly related to reading and mathematics achievement scores. (Author)

Recreation program planners can learn from program failures. Failures should not be viewed as negative statements about personnel. Examining feelings in a supportive staff environment is suggested as a technique for developing competence. (DF)

Reanalysis of previous studies indicated mean persistence scores are highest and equal for success-motivated subjects with high subjective expectation of success and for failure-avoidance motivated subjects with low expectation of success; scores are lowest for success-motivated subjects with low success expectation and for failure-avoidance…

Notes that the most important fact that the data reveals is that only six of the twenty-four colleges surveyed have a dial access system leading to the conclusion that black colleges could not have killed dial access because they never had it. (Author/AM)

This paper describes some programs that provide support for college students at risk of academic failure students, and offers an approach for a model academic probation program. In general, the literature identifies two types of program based on the type of student participation: mandatory or voluntary. Intrusive programs, in which student…

This report examines the effects of increasing retention standards on the percentage of students on student academic probation, suspension, persistence, and graduation rates for students in the Oklahoma State System of higher education. The State Regents adopted higher student retention standards between 1991 and 1993. The standards increased…

Gives six reasons why open education doesn't always work and offers suggestions to remedy the problems. (Author/DN)

Counselors, counselor educators, and guidance administrators are not demonstarting a great deal of interest or expertise in career guidance. A connection between this statement and a study conducted to determine what, if any, limitaiions on vocational guidance were the result of the guidance administrators' occupational interests is drawn. (AG)

Tests the hypothesis that there is reason for teachers to be concerned with the interrelation of audience conditions, the probability of success, and the degree of fear of failure influencing reading persistence in boys. (Author/RB)

Sets forth specific questions for detecting plagiarism in student writing such as unusual titles, irrelevant topic, professionalism of typing, bibliography, footnotes, and an unusual approach to subject. (DS)

The factors are, according to the author, financial ineptitude by the administration and the refusal of the teachers to accept responsibility. (SP)