Author suggests that the examiner experiences the same psychological and physical malaise evoked by anxiety that is felt by the student which may have something to do with today's student-teacher tension. (IR)

It is the responsibility of colleges and universities to help prevent ambitious hardworking students with some ability from academic failure in their freshman vear. (IR)

Beginning with preschool years, children compare the rewards they receive with those received by other children. These comparisons have powerful effects upon subsequent self-rewarding behavior, evaluation of rewards and the sharing of rewards with others. A key process in these developments, social comparison," is reviewed in this article.…

Examines the failure of the youth employment service and occupational guidance in the secondary schools of Great Britain. (SB)

The hypothesis that success influences task preferences was tested. Results supported the hypothesis: the probability of change in task preference was greatest under high success reinforcement ratio conditions. (Author)

The subjects in whom the motive to approach success was greater than the motive to avoid failure had significantly more accurate perceptions of occupational prestige and higher occupational aspirations than subjects in whom the motive to avoid failure was greater than the motive to approach success. (Author)

Seventy-five undergraduate students projected their feelings in eight typical achievement situations. As hypothesized, perception of success or failure and effort were casually linked to affect, and task importance contributed to perceived value of the outcome. (Author/RM)

According to two models of innovation processes, those of Lindquist and of Berg and Ostergren, factors which explain why innovations succeed or fail include linkage, openness, gain/loss, ownership, leadership, and power. The models are used to analyze one particular innovation--the course evaluation scheme at the University of Birmingham…