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Direct linkCoutts, Trudi E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study is a transcendental phenomenological study that described the experience of students' interest in science from elementary school through middle school grades and the identification of the factors that increase or decrease interest in science. Numerous researchers have found that interest in science changes among children and the change…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Interests, Attitude Change, Student Attitudes
Download full textLippe, Mary; Weber, Dana – 1996
This report describes a program for increasing intrinsic reading motivation. The targeted population consisted of lower primary students in a growing middle class community, located in northern Illinois. The problems of aliterate students were documented through teacher observations and student surveys. Analysis of probable cause data revealed…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Parent Influence, Parent Role, Primary Education
Hatfield, Susan – 1996
This study examined the effective use of computer stations across the curriculum. Research was conducted in a fourth grade classroom in Lena, a small, rural farming town in northwestern Illinois. Desks were arranged in circular clusters of five. The students moved to five different stations, one of which was an IBM computer mini-lab. The lab, used…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods
CATTELL, RAYMOND B.; AND OTHERS – 1962
OBJECTIVE INTERESTS AND MOTIVATION MEASURES WERE STUDIED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A SUITABLE METHOD FOR PREDICTING SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. IT WAS FIRST NECESSARY TO DETERMINE THE STRUCTURE OF INTERESTS IN CHILDREN AND TO INCORPORATE THESE FACTORS INTO A TOTAL MEASUREMENT BATTERY. THE INTEREST MEASURES WERE THEN COMBINED WITH MEASURES OF ABILITY AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Hardig, Robert J. – 1976
In a broad-based survey to determine what community colleges are doing to publicize adult and continuing education programs and the effectiveness of that publicity, administrators ranked the following dissemination methods in order of importance: course schedules, newspaper advertisements, newspaper stories, program flyers, and word of mouth. Word…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Females
PDF pending restorationBujan, Josephine; And Others – 1996
The goal of this action research project goal was to improve students' taking responsibility for their own learning. The targeted population consisted of 120 intermediate and middle school students in 5 classes from 2 middle-class communities in northern Illinois. The lack of student responsibility in the learning process was documented through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Graphic Organizers, Interest Inventories
