Response to an information form sent to vocational agriculture teachers and to principals of schools in which programs of vocational agriculture existed indicated areas of agreement and disagreement about aspects of vocational agriculture program. Recommendations for improving understanding between teachers and principals are made, based on these…

Fourteen young people who have received vocational training answer questions about the problems of society, the possible contributions of vocationally trained young people to the solution of these problems, their current community and national involvement, the reasons for their choice of vocational field and their personal goals and plans. (SA)

A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)

In this study, the manipulation of motivation conditions through explicit examiner's expectancy of good performance was used to improve significantly the performance on intelligence tests. (Author/KM)

The purposes of this study were to determine which of the tests, PPVT, SIT, or Lorge-Thorndike (LT), may be the most useful to the classroom teacher in predicting reading achievement, for use in reading expectancy formulas, and for analyzing I.Q. scores obtained on different tests. (Author/RK)

Previous experiments with grade school children, designed to raise their expectations for their own performance, were repeated with pupil subgroups formed according to race, sex, and age. Positive results were reproduced, and further analyses are presented to assess the effect of some status factors in the situation. (Author/JB)

The expectations of 50 rehabilitation leaders for the role and responsibilities of rehabilitation counselors in 1980 are summarized. Their projections, made in 1967, include the types of tasks, settings, clients, and services rehabilitation counselors will experience. (Author)

Reported were the results and implications of a study that investigated the role perception and performance of 56 blind adolescents when compared with their own expectations and the expectations of other persons. (CB)

Suggests the issue of determining the relevant child characteristics that cause a particular teacher to form an expectation about a particular child. (MM)

The intellectual performance of males and females in scientific subjects is compared. (CK)

When comparison with a white standard was anticipated, scores on a code task would be higher with a black tester than with a white tester, but when comparison with a black standard was anticipated, the difference between testers would be in the opposite direction. (Author)