The native speaker's knowledge of his language is characterized as a grammar of expectancy that incorporates pragmatic knowledge of the world. Thus, in teaching a second language, the student must be allowed to take advantage of previously acquired expectations about situations while learning a new grammar of expectancy. (Author/LG)

In attempting to understand the complex effects of mutual eye contact, article examined some of the reasons one person would want to see another, regardless of whether the other can or would want to reciprocate the look. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the performance of students as they are influenced by their teachers. (RK)

Article provided guidelines for supervising teachers or supervisors to keep in mind when evaluating a student teacher. (Author/RK)

Ninety-four engineers were asked to describe their supervisors' leadership style, to indicate their expectancies whether performing effectively in their jobs would lead to job rewards and the valence of these rewards. Results indicated that leader consideration and employee expectancies operate in joint fashions to affect job performance. (Author)

This study, using Hyman Rodman's concept "value stretch" in an attempt to resolve the long-standing controversy over the existence of universal versus class-differentiated success values in American society, surveys white boys from four Massachusetts high schools. (Author/JH)

Author devoted himself primarily to a discussion of Beardsley's view of aesthetic experience and attempted to see what conclusions about aesthetic experience could be drawn as a result of reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of Beardsley's theory. (Author/RK)

Article described an attempt to make state assessment into a useful tool for improving educational practice. (Author/RK)

One effective method of motivating the disabled learner is the use of student-selected specific goals for learning tasks. (CL)

This field study was designed as an examination of the effects of stating self-expectancy for complex learning tasks administered under typical classroom conditions. (Author/RK)

In this study only bias in scoring, controlling for the effect of actual administration, was investigated. Results indicated that scoring the WISC was biased by scorers' expectations, and that the bias effect exists independent of actual administration of the test. (Author)

Two groups of paid female students were employed in a modified Aronson and Carlsmith (1962) expectancy-performance design. Overall results did not support predictions derived from dissonance theory. (Author)

The explanatory observational study investigated the relationships among curriculum content, instructional activity, teachers' expectations and reading performance for 52 children in six primary grade classrooms for the learning disabled. The analysis illustrates the utility of structural modeling in clarifying the probable causal relationships…

The extent to which 46 special education teachers judged the mathematics performance of a fourth grader to be a function of his handicapping condition and/or his competence was evaluated. A videotape presentation and brief case study were reviewed and teachers were asked the extent to which various attributes were influential in the child's…

Eighteen regular education teachers completed a rating scale on their expectations for the behavioral and academic performances of 27 younger siblings of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD students. All teachers previously had taught the Ss' older siblings. Expectation ratings were significantly lower for the siblings of LD Ss in the areas of…