The studies described here were executed to explore and verify the conjecture that teachers' expectations are likely to be systematically associated with implicit stereotyped perceptions of names, and these stereotypical expectations may in turn be reflected in teachers' subjective evaluation of student products and performance. (Author/RK)

This study represents an attempt to construct and collect preliminary validity data for a children's interpersonal trust scale. (Author)

The present study has concerned itself with attempting to identify information that would be readily accessible to the classroom teacher at the beginning of the term in order that he might aid those who are potential non-achievers. (Author)

The basic question of the research reported here was whether or not expectancy, as defined here, was a significant factor in relationship to dissonant teacher support characteristics in affecting performance on given assignments. (Author)

Studied were the effects on observational concept learning of the experimenter as his own model, versus the experimenter plus a separate model, versus a nonmodeling (control) procedure, as well as the provision of favorable versus neutral outcome-expectation. (Authors/CB)

Male and female undergraduates rated their ability, amount of preparation, task difficulty, and their initial confidence (expectation) before they began an important examination. Subsequently they attributed causality for the examination outcome by rating the importance of factors involving ability, preparation, task difficulty, and luck as…

If author were to be asked to specify the single most significant outcome of educational research in the last decade, he would select just this one: the power of teacher attitude and teacher expectation. (Author/CB)

Author analyzes student expectations as they affect professorial performance. (Author)

In discussing the racial and class prejudices of teachers and administrators, this article focuses on the views of Mrs. Louise Day Hicks of Boston, as well as on the Rosenthal experiments on teacher expectations. (JW)

Bias effect was mainly accounted for by male experimenters testing subjects under conditions of nonautomated stimulus presentation and by female experimenters testing subjects under automated conditions. (Authors)

Principal finding of this study was the association between tutors' familiarity with the test materials and greater test score gains by their pupils. (Authors)

One of the most practical implications of this research is that the study of language variations in children, particularly minority group children, and attitudinal correlates be introduced into the curricula of teacher training. (Authors)

Deals with the major aspects dealt with at the Classroom Teachers National Study Conference in November 1971. Includes a statement of the basic concepts of Performance-Based teacher education, a resume of the issues identified by conference participants, and an outline of the next steps to be taken, as recommended by conference participants. (RB)