Occurrence of residual stutterings on adjacent words caused by blotting out words at random in a reading passage was studied. (KW)

The data suggest that student expectations about freshman camps have little appreciable relation to satisfaction with camps. Students' experiences with people at camp, however, were moderately related to satisfaction with camp. (Author)

The main effects and interactions of different methods of giving student IQ information to teachers (including the self-fulfilling prophesy hypothesis of Rosenthal's "Pygmalion in the Classroom"), sex of teacher, teacher opinion of IQ testing, and student socioeconomic level are investigated. (DG)

Assessment was obtained of both initial attitudes and attitude change among college students and chronic patients in a hospital companionship program. At the conclusion of the program, students manifested significantly more favorable attitudes toward patients and less favorable attitudes toward the mental hospital; patients saw the students as…

It was expected that children with high as compared to low SD would state overly cautious bids suggesting low expectancy for success, and would adopt a failure avoiding pattern of Rotter's level of aspiration task. The results support the hypotheses on SD and cautious, failure avoiding behavior. Age must be carefully controlled. (CJ)

Late twentieth century poetry dwells on themes of protest. It has a great deal of appeal and is reaching more of an audience than ever before. (CK)

Mothers of 23 learning disabled and 23 nondisabled elementary school children were interviewed to determine their perceptions of their child's strengths and weaknesses, causal attributions for these strengths and weaknesses, predictions for future performance, and evaluations of their child relative to other children. Mothers of learning disabled…

Eighty students and 15 teachers provided expectancies and attributions for the academic performance of hypothetical medicated and nonmedicated hyperactive children. Both teachers and peers had higher expectancies for the medicated than for the nonmedicated child. Data suggested that these differential expectancies may arise from different…

The author presents issues in the field of gifted education from the student's point of view. Among the areas addressed are the following: teachers' expectations for the gifted, the dumb athlete stereotype, rigid class periods, excessive bragging about bright students by friends and relatives, and acceptance of the grade letter "B." (SB)

Investigated the active components of covert positive reinforcement that consisted of an S-R modality, a reinforcement procedure, and a demand for expectancy of success. Results of the behavioral avoidance test indicated that subjects in the overt S-R modality groups approached closer to the rat. (Author)

The role of beliefs in expected unchangeability of life stress (EU) was studied in a sample of 194 elderly persons with economic and/or health problems and a control group. The research model integrated different approaches to cognitive theories of adjustment to aging. (Author/CM)

The article discusses the use of expectancy formulas (formulas based on the discrepancy between achievement and potential, and used as the chief criterion for special program inclusion and evaluation) by teachers of the reading disabled, and reports on a survey of 25 university masters degree programs in reading teacher education regarding such…

Reports a personal commitment dimension in client expectancies about counseling. The findings extend and amplify considerably the information available on the dimensions underlying client expectancies about counseling. (Author)