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Download full textHorn, Evelyn D. – 1991
One of the current trends in education is the use of reward systems to motivate students. Students are being motivated by cash and other prizes for high grades, attendance, and good behavior. If this trend continues, educators may lose sight of the need to motivate students internally and to find better teaching methods to accomplish this goal.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Educational Trends, Elementary School Students
University Coll. Worcester (England). Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education. – 1998
Building upon the work of the Effective Early Learning (EEL) Project in raising the quality of early learning for young children in the United Kingdom, the 3-year Accounting Early for Life Long Learning Project (AcE Project) focuses on enhancing in 3- to 6-year-olds those attitudes and dispositions that are important to life-long learning. This…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedDiCintio, Matthew J.; Stevens, Robert J. – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1997
Examined relationship between the cognitive demands of instruction and student motivation in fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade mathematics classrooms. Found through observation and survey data that sixth- and seventh-grade math lessons were characterized by significantly fewer elements of higher-order thinking than fifth-grade math lessons, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Peer reviewedSoto, Lourdes Diaz – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
Differences and relationships between home environment and motivational orientation were examined for 28 higher and 29 lower achieving mainland Puerto Rican children in grades 5 and 6. Post-hoc multiple regression analysis revealed that family involvement accounted for a significant amount of variance with regard to achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Family Environment
Anderman, Eric M. – 1992
Middle school students (N=712) were surveyed about their achievement goals and cognitive processing strategies. Results suggest that academically at-risk students use deep strategies less and are less learning focused than not at-risk and special education students. Special education and at-risk students tended to be more ability-focused than not…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Development, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students
McCombs, Barbara L.; Pope, James E. – 1994
This book explores ways that teachers can work to motivate elementary, middle, or high school students who have lost interest in learning by explaining motivation and providing suggestions for student and teacher empowerment. It opens with two case illustrations of difficult to reach students and invites the reader to offer their response. The…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Psychology
