College students (N=121) viewed videotaped lectures by a male or female actor using either expressive or nonexpressive communication. The expressive teacher received the highest evaluation score. The nonexpressive male teacher's students had the poorest test performance, the nonexpressive female teacher's students the highest. (Author/BS)

Junior high school teachers (n=52) and students (n=51) viewed and photograph of male student with or without earring (nonconformity versus conformity), read behavior vignette, and rated student. Evaluations of personal traits, social class, and reactions to behavior vignette were influenced by presence or absence of earring and by whether…

Achievement motivation recently has been examined as a four-factor construct. Fiji, part of the British Commonwealth, provides an interesting testing ground for the question of different achievement patterns for different ethnic groups. The achievement motivation levels of high school students from four ethnic groups and university students from…

Because mathematics and gender(sex) is a research area of increasing international interest, a worldwide survey about research concerned with special problems of girls and women when learning mathematics was conducted. Reports included in this document were submitted from Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, England and Wales, India, Ireland,…

Explores the impact of gender diversity on school achievement, using data from an ethnographic study of academic success among 33 eleventh-grade students in a Washington (DC) high school. The normalized definition of femaleness juxtaposed with a dominating patriarchy propels African-American females to resist images that assert their nothingness.…