This study compares teacher and observer adjective descriptions of student characteristics to teacher rankings of the same students' characteristics on a series of 13 rating scales. Data reported were collected as part of the Student Attribute Study, a 2-year investigation designed to identify student characteristics which are associated with…

This report provides previously unpublished data gathered during Project Focus, a nationwide sample survey of community and junior colleges, on the vocational plans and expectations of full-time students enrolled in fall 1970. The data were drawn from a sample of 10,250 student responses from 92 institutions. The report tabulates data on student…

The primary purpose of this study was to replicate and extend research in the area of teachers expectancies toward an adult education population in a remedial course, the General Technical Review Course at a military base in the Southeastern United States. The students, 68 blacks, 27 whites, and 12 Spanish speakers were initially administered an…

Predicting student success in various academic situations has traditionally been via the use of cognitive pre-tests, or other non-attitudinal measures. A study grouped students, (approximately 75 percent female, primarily college sophomores enrolled in a semester-length audiovisual course), according to individual pro-instructional expectancy…

This tenth and last article in the series briefly reviews the objectives of the series and introduces a framework for further understanding and implementing the ideas that are useful to individual retirees. (Author/MLF)

To determine whether teachers' dominative and integrative contacts with children are related to their assessments of children, four kindergarten teachers were observed for 300 minutes each. The Clifton form of the Anderson observational system was used to measure teacher contacts with individual children in their classes. Teachers were then asked…

In an attempt to understand the variability in student evaluations, a study was undertaken at the beginning of the fall 1972 semester to analyze California students' initial course expectations. A Course Questionnaire was designed consisting of a total of 19 statements with a six-point response rating scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly…

The 66 annotations given in this bibliography are from status projection literature resulting from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Regional Research Project S-61 "Development of Human Resource Potentials and Mobility in the Rural South" completed by the summer of 1971. Most of the studies reported conform to the following…

This paper discusses the inadequacies of elementary and college education, stating that since teachers expect students to write poorly, they do. Four risks which college writing teachers must take are: offering to help teach writing in grade schools and high schools; encouraging their colleagues to relax their standards; encouraging the acceptance…

This paper reports some of the preliminary findings of an investigation of the ways in which married couples experience pregnancy. Demographic, historical, personal, and marital information was gathered through individual interviews with each prospective parent. The 57 variables measured were combined to make six clusters: (1) experience of…

The results of this study empirically demonstrate the importance of cross-validating an instrument intended for use in a future study. The instrument used was the Teachers' Practices Questionnaire (TPQ) which had been devised in 1963 to measure teachers' subjective role expectations. Three samples of undergraduate and graduate students who were,…

Four nonmetropolitan South Texas counties were the target areas in exploring the proposition that dropouts should have lower aspirations and expectations than their in-school age peers. Data were obtained from approximately 600 Mexican American high school sophomores and 75 dropout age peers residing in the counties studied in 1968 and 1969. The…

This report contains the proceedings of the conference, which focused on the relationship between the administrator and the school board. Four authors discuss this relationship from different perspectives. Rolland W. Jones enumerates a number of hallmarks of the ideal relationship as he sees it. Frank Beinder presents the trustee's view of the…

The study examined differences in education-related attitudes between a group employed in a technologically and scientifically oriented manufacturing facility and a group from a job environment that reflected chronic unemployment, low skill requirements, terminal achievement levels, and poor opportunities for advancement. Questionnaires were…

This document reports on parent and elementary pupil expectations regarding participation in a Big Brother-Big Sister type program. The parents and students included were all new to the program and experiencing the relationship with a Big Brother or Sister for the first time. In the program a community volunteer befriended a youngster at the…