Study results suggest that if counselors were aware of home expectations early in child's school career, they could recognize trouble signals and attempt to alter parental expectations which are unreal. (CJ)

There are differences between experienced BSCS biology teachers and those beginning to use BSCS, with respect to the ranking of objectives in order of importance and in the estimation of the ease of achieving the objectives. There is a disparity between the teachers' priorities and their expectations of achieving the objectives. (AL)

Cigarette smoking was found tobe significantly related to social status for females, but not for males. Smoking was closely related to peer group membership, and peer group memberships related closely to each individual's position in the social status system. A feeling of failure to achieve appeared to be related to tendency for ninth graders to…

The use of ability grouping restricts students to interact with others who have been identified as similar in ability and carries with it the stigma of failure and the operation of the self-fulfilling prophecy. (Author)

The results show that parents and students did not always agree on college expectancy, but students have not been entirely accurate in their perceptions and have not always been able to fulfill their expectations. Parents may have more accurate long term expectations than do students. (Author/BY)