To control for response bias in student ratings of college teachers, an index of rater error was used that was theoretically independent of actual performance. Partialing out the effects of this extraneous response bias enhanced validity, but partialing out overall effectiveness resulted in reduced convergent and discriminant validities.…

Presents results of a study of how readers fill in information "gaps" in a text to make meaning, using adolescents' response to a story by Brecht. Concludes that such gaps bore children uninterested in making meaning, and that those who make meaning from a mechanical stance may be limited in their comprehension unless deeper ways of…

Discusses a young adult novel with an unusual theme: a neglected boy roams the New York City subways by day and makes his home in a cave. (NKA)

Life stories of three child maltreatment survivors illustrate how resilience is fostered by various protective factors. Protective factors include personal characteristics or skills (e.g., precocious maturity, dissociation of affect), generic life circumstances (e.g., good health, social welfare services), and abuse-specific factors (e.g.,…

Suggests that, because English teachers are often more knowledgeable about composition theory and pedagogy, English departments should house writing-across-the-curriculum programs. (ARH)

Asserts that teachers must form collaborative alliances and nonevaluative dialogue to regain control over their own professional development. The empowering potential of Robert Goldhammer's and Morris Cogan's original conceptions of clinical supervision have been distorted through the process of redefinition by vested interests to a form of…

Examines some of the written responses of instructors to student writing, such as "redundant,""vague," and "rewrite," and considers the effects on the students. (EL)

There has been an increase in teaching aimed at improving the physician-patient relationship in conjunction with teaching the medical interview. Unconscious, unrecognized responses of a trainee to a patient may explain failure of the trainee to use newly acquired knowledge on interviewing. (Author/MLW)

Claims that literacy and literature become interrelated in classrooms where there are many opportunities to engage in the narrative mode of thought. Discusses how the potential of literacy/literature experiences is enriched when students draw from the narrative reservoirs of the community and school. (JD)

Observations were made of instructor-student classroom interactions at the collegiate level. Professors interacted differentially at a significant level with minority versus non-minority students in the majority of the behavioral observations, and the instructors had significantly lower academic expectations of undergraduate minority students…

Explains the need for examining socialization forces in identifying strategies of differential treatment of preschool boys and girls. Reports analyzed areas of differences in teachers' interactions with boys as compared with girls in different curriculum areas. (Author/AS)

Examines the viability of a construct, Substitutes for Leadership, for understanding and explaining principal influence potential. Interview data were collected to determine whether leadership substitutes exist in the school setting. These data indicated that substitutes may potentially limit principal influence on teachers' work agendas,…

Explores professionals' practice of heightening the awareness of child abuse victims as either a goal or a by-product of the investigation-treatment process. Suggests guidelines indicating when it may be advisable to heighten awareness during treatment and when it should be avoided. (HOD)

Examines the use of the repertory grid technique to describe student responses to the poem "Frost at Midnight" by Coleridge. (HOD)

The random response technique was compared to a direct questionnaire, administered to college students, to investigate whether or not the responses predicted the social desirability of the item. Results suggest support for the hypothesis. A 33-item version of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale which was used is included. (GDC)