Administered items from three locus of control (LOC) tests and the Beck Hopelessness Scale to 197 undergraduates. Factor analyses produced multiple factors for each LOC test; Beck proved to be unidimensional. Each LOC test contained salient dimension describing belief in luck, chance, or fate. Other common themes were internal control and…

Ninety managers interacted with low performing workers who demonstrated either insufficient ability or motivation. Results indicated that cooperative superiors expected mutual assistance, communicated supportively, and gave assistance. Superiors used threats and disliked low effort subordinates but wanted to work again with low ability…

Business executives, who had worked up a bureaucratic hierarchy, entrepreneurs, and managers completed the Miner Sentence Completion Scale (MSCS), a measure of managerial motivation. Results indicated that theory congruent top executives had higher managerial motivation than entrepreneurs or managers. Findings support the theory and the use of the…

Relates the history and development of the Cornell School of Rhetoric, a university department that revived the teaching of classical rhetoric in American colleges and universities in the twentieth century and subsequently had a profound effect on rhetorical studies in this country. (EL)

Discusses the reason for the delay of designing and executing a case study method for writing center tutorials. (EL)

Describes how Bakhtin's insights can heighten the reader's ability to experience verbal and written expression in a rich and complex way, thus serving as an anecdote to a simplified, exclusive concern with purely formal aspects of writing instruction. (EL)

Attempts to show in detail how the human literary activity called literary interpretation consists of personal selection and use of communal tools. (CRH)

Suggests the possibility of combining aspects of a transformational generative theory such as deep structure case grammar with concepts from a nontransformational, nongenerative theoretical framework such as form content analysis, for practical application in the area of foreign language teaching. (SL)

The interrelationships among motivational variables drawn from locus of control (LOC) theory and attribution theory, combined with measures of school achievement were measures of school achievement were investigated. Motivational instruments were administered to intermediate grade students and achievement data were extracted from existing school…

This article describes the role of the Swedish Educational System (SES). It focuses on the interplay between the political decisions building the SES from the 1930s to 1970s and the socioeconomic development, especially the changes in the labor market. (CT)

Offers a description and a rationale for language experience learning, then presents an explanation of current developments and factors influencing the implementation of language experience programs. (FL)

Explores the differences in how teachers ask students to learn from reading and the way in which adults and children learn from reading outside of school. (FL)

Discusses the origins of the language across the curriculum movement and its current status in various countries. Includes a bibliography intended to help shift focus from writing across the curriculum to language across the curriculum. (HTH)

School boards can be oriented toward narrow interests or broader constituencies, bureaucratic or informal in organization, and private or public in their deliberations. Various board styles may be more or less suited to given electorates. Corruption appears more closely associated with secrecy in deliberations than with tendencies toward…

How educational philosophers have explained, justified, and defined their field is discussed. Four periods are examined: the comparative period, 1942-1953; the transitional period, 1954-1957; the analytic period, 1958-1967; and the prospective period, 1968-1982. (RM)