This report describes a program designed to increase students' on-task behavior. The students in the sample population consisted of kindergarten, first, and fifth graders. These classrooms are located in a community in northern Illinois. The problem of student behavior adversely affecting on-task behavior was well documented through a review of…

This action research project report summarizes the methods used to reduce boredom and frustration and increase students' academic motivation in three mixed-ability classrooms. This action research project included 21 third grade students, 23 fifth grade students, and 28 eighth grade students (n=72) during the dates of September 10, 2007, through…

This research project was conducted at a high school in a suburban metropolitan area in the Midwest from August 21, 2006 through October 26, 2006. The purpose of the research was to improve student achievement and motivation through the posting and communicating of daily learning objectives. The research participants included 150 students and five…

In many elementary classrooms, math tends to be individualized work with repetitive paper-and-pencil assignments. This research project attempted to generate more interest in math, reduce math anxiety, and make math more enjoyable for students. Through the use of cooperative learning, students practiced and developed social skills needed to…

Investigated were differences between students participating in a compensatory education program and those enrolled in a regular college program. The primary aim of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program was to stimulate students coming from culturally deprived areas to pursue study at the higher education level by using innovative instructional…

A project was created to help seventh and eighth grade students improve their academic success. Students attended a middle school located in a growing urban community in the Midwest. Existence of the problem included records of low grades; an observation checklist to measure off-task behaviors; teacher surveys that determined the effect of missing…

This report describes a program for motivating students in mathematics in order to improve achievement at the high school level. The targeted population consisted of high school students in a middle class community located in a suburb of a large metropolitan area. The problems of underachievement were documented through data collected from surveys…

The action research project report began when the teacher researchers determined that students at Sites A and B struggled with reading achievement. The purpose of the project was to improve students' reading achievement through increased motivation, specific skill instruction, and additional practice time. The project involved 26 students: 17…

Reading is an important activity for all children to be able to do regardless of ability. Many children in classrooms around the country struggle with reading and need some extra support and attention. Determining student attitudes can help the teacher to provide the necessary services to those that need help to improve their reading. Students in…

A study explored the attitudes of marketing education cooperative training students at 10 Houston area high schools to determine their perceptions of the program and their reasons for enrolling. A three-page instrument was developed, tested in a pilot study and then revised and distributed to the 10 schools. Data were collected from 82 male and 82…

Sixty-eight fifth and sixth graders participated in a study of the relationship between self-concept, need achievement, and reading achievement and of the effects of a supplementary program designed to enhance self-concept and need achievement. The California Reading Test, the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, the Socio-Cultural…

The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if increasing the number of types of sensory stimulation prior to a writing experience would help children to write more creatively and to write longer stories. The sample for this study consisted of 300 randomly selected fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students from the Silver Bay area, a…

A review of research on homework is presented in the form of an annotated bibliography. The first part of the study deals with the historical development of homework in the late 19th and 20th centuries. In the second section, the nature and purposes of homework are explained as well as how assignments should be used to be more effective. The third…

Two group-comparison experiments indicate that it may be more cost efficient not to include a remediation procedure in a course, even though it may be to the students' advantage to remediate concepts they did not master in an undergraduate university course. In the first experiment, students in the remedial group received minimal course credit for…

The author sought to establish reasons for secondary school students' selecting chemistry as part of their course of studies. Another aspect of the study related to predictor variables and the study of chemistry, and a third aspect related to the type of curriculum used--Chemical Education Materials Study (CHEMS) or traditional. Eleventh-grade…