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Download full textBenzer, Semra; Sarisik, Yasemin; Kocan, Hilal – Online Submission, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of variables such as gender, class and parental education level, family income level on motivation levels of students to learn science and do research, performance, communication, collaborative work and participation. The study group of the study was in the 2015-2016 academic year, public schools in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Science Instruction, Grade 5, Grade 6
Direct linkKim, Kyoungna; Grabowski, Barbara L.; Sharma, Priya – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Only few studies have explicitly attended to the nature of the perceived underlying factors that prompt young adolescents' reflective thinking in association with K-12 learning environment. This paper focuses on an analysis of the factors that are perceived by young students as prompting their reflective thinking and how those factors apply to the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Thinking Skills, Classroom Environment
Langer, Judith A. – 1982
A study examined (1) relationships between background knowledge and reading passage comprehension, (2) the reliability of a passage-specific background knowledge measure used as the knowledge criterion, (3) the effect of a prereading language and concept organizer activity on available background knowledge, and (4) the effect of that prereading…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Prior Learning
Mosley, Mary Lou; And Others – 1984
Effects of two feedback conditions--comment and no comment--on the motivation of sixth grade students to continue with computer assisted instruction (CAI) were investigated, and results for boys and for girls were compared. Subjects were 62 students--29 boys and 33 girls--from a suburban elementary school who were randomly assigned to the comment…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAustin, James R.; Vispoel, Walter P. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1992
Presents research findings regarding motivation's role in music education. Explains that students in grades five through eight provided reactions to a fictitious band student's experience with failure. Reports that many respondents believed that the student would perform better, try harder, and receive the teacher's and fellow students' support in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Bands (Music), Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHidi, Suzanne; McLaren, John A. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Describes a Canadian study attempting to relate the motivating power of interest to children's writing performance by supplementing background knowledge with topic relevant information. Reports that children with tutorial support on high interest subjects performed no better than others. Concludes that the motivational power of interesting topics…
Descriptors: Curiosity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Peer reviewedFontaine, Anne Marie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1994
Reports on a study of the relationship between achievement motivation at school and child-rearing practices. Finds that more motivated children live in more rigidly structured families. Suggests more research on the differential influences of social context and gender. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics
Seymour, Sherrie L.; And Others – 1986
This study investigated the effects of medium of instruction, task difficulty, and gender on continuing motivation. A total of 139 fifth and sixth graders with previous computer experience completed an initial learning task in one of the two media formats (computer or paper/pencil) and under either a hard or easy difficulty level. Students' choice…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Grade 5
MacDonald, Judith B. – 1984
The verbal interaction between a laboratory school class of sixth/seventh grade students and their teacher during 18 social studies discussions was analyzed in order to identify teacher techniques relevant to student discourse and student passivity. Classroom discussions were taped, transcribed, and analyzed according to an adaptation of the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Research
Donoho, Grace – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Presents a case study of the library media program at Old High Elementary School, Bentonville, Arkansas, which uses production of audiovisual materials to build extrinsic motivation into reading programs for grades five and six and special education classes. Five measurement techniques used to evaluate the program's effectiveness are also…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedKnight, Stephanie L.; Waxman, Hersholt C. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1990
Investigates the relationship between social studies classroom environment and student motivation. Correlates several environmental variables with three motivational constructs (academic motivation, academic self-concept, and social self-concept) among 157 sixth grade, predominantly Hispanic students. Finds student satisfaction significantly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Correlation
Julkunen, Kyosti – 1992
A study in Finland investigated the relationship of two general aspects of student motivation for second language learning (preference for challenge and curiosity) and motivation specific to the learning situation. Subjects were 292 sixth-graders and 301 eighth-graders, who performed two open and two closed English vocabulary tasks in two…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
