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Download full textGarcia, Teresa; Pintrich, Paul R. – 1993
Self-regulated learning is usually viewed as the fusion of skill and will, referring to the students' development of different learning strategies in service of their goals. This definition is expanded in a study of self-schemas as a means of representing multiple goals for learning. Measures of self-schemas were used with 151 seventh graders (86…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Grade 7
Salmi, Hannu – 1993
This study investigates student learning in science center exhibitions as a form of informal education and examines intrinsic, instrumental, and situational student motivation. Subjects (N=130) consisted of 6 comprehensive school classes of 7th graders in the greater Helsinki area. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Exhibits, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWentzel, Kathryn R.; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 1995
Obtained peer nominations, teacher reports, and self-reports for 423 sixth and seventh graders. Compared to sociometrically average status students, neglected students reported higher levels of motivation and were described by teachers as being more self-regulated, more prosocial, and better liked. Aggressive-rejected, but not submissive-rejected,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aggression, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Leblanc, R.; Leroux, J.; Laveault, D.; Oliver, L.; Shaffer, D. – 2000
Motivation orientation, planning, and self-evaluation strategies were examined in 25 students in grades 6 through 8. The students' answers to the surveys were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed. Recurrent themes were identified and were chosen for examples that most reflected students' ideas and strategies. On the issue of motivation, the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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
Eisele, Todd – 1996
This action research project evaluated a program to improve student motivation, attendance rate, percent of homework returned, and student academic growth. The targeted population was a seventh-grade class in a middle school in north central Illinois. The problem of inadequate student motivation was documented by means of attendance rates,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Grade 7
Anderman, Eric M.; And Others – 1994
Changes in students' (N=313) present and possible "good student" selves over the transition from elementary school to middle school are examined by this study. Findings indicate that both present and possible selves decline over the transition, and that the decline is greater for males than for females. Holding mastery goals is related to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Development, Early Adolescents, Elementary Education
