A survey gauging superintendents', principals', and teachers' expectations for the principalship revealed great similarities among all three groups' perceptions of what principals should do and what principals actually accomplish. However, teachers noted principals' low regard for creative teaching, a situation impeding educational progress.…

Grantham and Gordon (1986) contend that preference is inadequately understood as a construct and that a more incisive conceptualization is needed to promote research and theoretical considerations. Critiques Grantham and Gordon's notions, offering an alternative conceptualization and schema. (Author/KS)

Measured future expectations of quality of life and present evaluations of quality of life in three age groups of 60 individuals using four measures. Found significant relationship between age and Faces Scale for future expectations; age also related to differences between future expectations and present quality of life estimates. (Author/ABL)

Examined intentions of single and partnered college women (N=295) to work after childbirth. Results indicated some attitudinal differences among groups, with those who were members of a couple more concerned that their husbands would have to take a second job. Also those who were planners expected to have better time management, more income, and…

American culture attributes success and failure to four factors (native ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck) existing on three continuums (locus, stability, and controllability). This article applies attribution theory to students' beliefs concerning their present and future academic performance and explores implications for both students…

The 1987 Phoebe Apperson Hearst Outstanding Educator of the Year Award winner, Bessie McLemore, principal of Atlanta's Fulton High School, is introduced. Her perceptions of her role as principal and the roles of both students and parents are discussed. (MT)

Examined the determination of individual differences in marital change across the transition to parenthood. Results indicated parents whose postnatal experiences turned out less positive and more negative than anticipated experienced more negative change in marriage. Prenatal expectations of well-educated parents generally matched their…

Subjects' ratings of counselor charactristics were more positive for attractive than for unattractive counselors, regardless of subject or counselor race. Black counselors were expected to be more helpful than were White counselors. Black subjects saw attractive counselors as being more helpful than unattractive counselors. (Author/BL)

Social environment theory was used to determine the relation of adult dropout behavior to the social ecology of the classroom. The Classroom Environment Scale was administered to 77 adults in General Educational Development classes. Dropouts expected a classroom environment characterized by less social involvement with other students. (Author/CH)

Two behaviors essential to good teaching, teacher expectation and teacher flexibility, have been incorporated into the observation system used in the student teacher program at the University of New Mexico. The importance of these behaviors in teaching and in evaluating student teachers is discussed. (MT)

Presents and discusses a conceptual model of the concerns of prerelease offenders and community supervisors. The conceptualization suggests that "perceptual differences" of the concerns of prerelease status is one alternative for examining the supervisorial relationship. Attempts to identify and confront the different expectations of supervisors…

Describes the elements of an on-site, international program for adult learners, including (1) structured group activities; (2) time for reflection and introspection, (3) unstructured free time, and (4) addressing expectations of adult learners. (CH)

Critiques American educational experts' infatuation with the Japanese educational system. Outlines Japan's 1986 national council on education reform report that characterizes the Japanese school system as "an educational wasteland" urging that Japan's schools develop "decentralization" and "diverse identities," and…

Using a comparative case-study method, questionnaires, and structured interviews, the authors investigated how British and American students view the study of literature teaching. The focus is upon the expectations students have of their courses, but their views of literature as a subject are also presented. (Author/CH)

Describes a study of Norwegian undergraduates which attempted to explain previous research showing that women have a lower expectancy than men before examinations. Reports that little evidence was found to support the assumption that sex differences in expectancy can be understood as an aspect of differences in more general instrumental…