Profile analyses indicated significantly different patterns of classroom behavior for differing self-concept levels. The highest self-concept group showed the greatest percentage of task-oriented behaviors; the lowest self-concept group had the largest percentage of nondirected behaviors. (GDC)

Two hundred thirty-seven Canadian college students participated in a study of the correlation between teacher ratings and academic achievement. This relationship varied according to students' belief about lecturer experience. Lecturer quality had a much greater effect on the ratings than on student achievement. (Author/GDC)

Teacher's interactions with 219 eighth-grade students were compared to personality characteristics of the students, using factor and regression analysis. It was found that teachers more closely supervised both the aggressive and the apprehensive students. Teachers presented clear intellectual challenges to the self-assured and the bright students.…

Competent and low ability readers were tested in reading and listening comprehension. Seventh grade students were selected, assuming that reading and listening competency are comparable at this level. After reading or listening to a folk tale, subjects recalled the important ideas. Reading and listening performance were significantly correlated.…

Three hundred fifty-nine undergraduates enrolled in 9 courses completed a course evaluation and a survey of educational preferences and orientations. The course instructors completed a similar attitudinal instrument. The faculty survey was more useful than the student survey in explaining differences in course evaluations. Disparity between these…

Seventh grade students answered questions while reading programmed science materials. For increasingly difficult questions, achievement and time required to complete the unit increased. Post-instruction achievement was higher in groups which answered questions during the unit than those which read additional material but answered no questions.…

Teachers rated responsibility and expected performance of first and second grade students. Actual classroom interaction was observed; high or low expectation was related to teacher praise or criticism. Other relationships between teacher expectation, perceived personal responsibility, teacher rating of responsibility, and teacher feedback behavior…

The hypothesis that teachers criticize low-expectation students in order to control reinforcement schedules was tested. Teacher expectation, teacher perception of control, criticism of students, academic behavior, and student perception of teacher response to student effort were examined in six primary grade classes. Implications concerning…

High school students with high or average achievement motivation read a passage with a list of learning goals. Two different goal lists were used. The 24 students were also instructed to expect a particular type of test questions. A free-recall test was administered; results are discussed. (GDC)

Mexican-American and Anglo-American children from a semirural low-income elementary school were tested for competition, individualism, field independence, and school achievement. The Mexican-American children were found to be more prosocial and less competitive, but these factors were not necessarily related to lower school achievement. (GDC)

College students' willingness to persist in a learning activity was studied in relation to personal versus impersonal methods of feedback. The 80 subjects represented four different belief systems, according to Harvey's This I Believe Test. Mechanized teaching aids were not conducive to persistence for all types of students. (GDC)

The relationship between cognitive style and hypothesis-testing behavior was studied in 46 third grade children. It was found that field independent children process information more efficiently and according to a perfect focusing model. Efforts to enhance the information processing of field dependent children were described. (GDC)

Subjects read a textual passage encompassing hierarchically related topics. A structural outline presented in advance of reading the text facilitated reproductive recall of facts. The recall of specific facts was superior to that of general facts, implying an experimental demand to be precise in learning and recalling specific factual material.…

Fourth graders were more achievement oriented than first graders and were not influenced by the sex of the experimenter. However, when the first graders were encouraged to achieve, boys responded positively to the male experimenter but negatively to the female experimenter. For the girls, the pattern was reversed. (Author/MV)

Two studies assessed the effects of a peer-monitoring procedure on student performance in a college course. Both studies indicated the superiority of the peer-monitoring method over the typical individual performance contingency. (Author/MV)