This synopsis describes a study undertaken to discover the extent of differing expectations and perceptions for the teacher role as viewed by two groups of educational leaders. Indications are that a more thorough understanding of superintendent and board member views and feelings concerning the teacher role is a vital requirement for the…

The primary aim of this study was to ascertain whether expectations affect children's performance on a measure designed to assess development of understanding of the Minimum Distance Principle (MDP) and its exceptions. There were three major hypotheses: (1) sentences harmonious with expectation should be more easily understood than neutral…

Interviews with 321 university students were used to determine relationships between admitted marijuana use and theft and perceptions of the severity and certainty of punishment. Use of marijuana and theft activity were expected to be least frequent among those who: (1) perceive the harshest penalties for marijuana possession and petty larceny;…

A causal model was developed to study teacher, student, and educational expectations. The substantive issue concerns the impact of teachers' expectations on students' expectations. The subjects, 6,032 high school students, were drawn from a major Canadian city in 1959. Variables include social origins, intellectual ability, program, academic…

A behaviorally specific motivational effort rating scale was developed and tested. The organizational specific scale results were examined and compared to those generated from the Landy and Guion scale. It was found that the organizationally specific and engineer relevant scale is a better predictor of two types of expectancies. (Author)

Research has shown that entering freshmen and two-year college transfers enroll with unrealistically high expectations of the college environment. This study found that the phenomenon existed for entering graduate students in three university departments. Established graduate students were also found to perceive their departmental environments…

A case study analyzing job enrichment schemes and manager expectations of increased productivity is presented. It was found that it was the managers' expectations of increased productivity, not the reorganization of work, that led to higher productivity. (EC)

For the evaluator, future expectations will be more demanding than at present. Operating staff, managers, and funders will be familiar with the program evaluation. Improved information tools will help by keeping the organization visible and manageable. A more fundamental change will be an improved "language of accountability." (Author/CTM)

Undergraduates could earn a $10 bonus by performing above average on a free-recall task. Following a pretest, success messages were manipulated. During a subsequent test, subjects could cheat. Cheating was related to anticipated success in a curvilinear fashion with medium success yielding the most cheating. Cheating and expectations are…

Males and females in grades 2 through 8 and in age levels 15-18, 25-35, 40-50, and 55-65 were interviewed and asked for the number of friends they have, their friends' names, and what they liked about having a friend. Results are discussed in terms of changing peer expectations and influences during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…

A sample of 161 undergraduate students completed a questionnaire measuring their preferences for expertise, genuineness, trust, acceptance, understanding, outcome, and directiveness. These data were compared with data previously obtained about students' expectations of counseling, and the relationship among sex, college class, and preferences for…

This study is concerned with how different modes of attention influence anticipatory reactivity and, in addition to investigating initial reactivity, examines the influence of attention upon habituation. (Author/RK)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

Two independent studies were conducted to examine the expectancy behavior of unselected hypnotic, task-motivated, and control-imagination subjects on a slide task requiring response to ambiguous visual information. Results showed that hypnotic subjects consistently demonstrated expectancy behavior, whereas nonhypnotic subjects did not. (Editor/RK)

The existence of two different approaches to the theoretical understanding of social behavior is noted. Presents a systems model as offered by Talavage and compares it with Rotter's social learning theory. (Editor/RK)