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Download full textLeblanc, 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
Miller, Curtis A. – 1995
This report describes a program for improving motivation of eighth grade students. Attendance, grades, discipline referrals, and student surveys were used in measuring changes in student attitudes. Problems were documented from data showing grades, attendance, and discipline referrals from the second semester of the 1994-95 school year. A student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, At Risk Persons, Grade Point Average
Tuckman, Bruce W.; Trimble, Susan – 1997
Forty-one middle school students in two eighth-grade classes were taught half of their science chapters in the conventional manner with homework assignments, and half of their chapters by having short classroom quizzes on each unit. Quizzes were expected to stimulate incentive motivation as a mediator between a goal object, mastery, and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Grade 8
