Describes a rationale which suggests that repetitious activities and motivational techniques should be integrated to produce successful achievement, enhanced perseverance, and positive self-concept. (RS)

A study of 114 sixth graders assessed the effects of a learner-control strategy involving choice of elaborative materials in a computer-based tutorial. Results of the study, which incorporated a task-persistence variable, indicate that persistence was related to performance and that learner control enhanced persistent subjects' performance. (TJH)

At present computers in schools are misconceived; they are better conceptualized as a source of energy. The energy metaphor is applied to three categories of functions associated with computers in schools: curriculum functions, teaching functions, and learning functions. (IAH)

Suggests ways to help students move beyond rewriting to revising, including situational analysis and peer evaluation. Provides a worksheet on generating ideas, guidelines for evaluation, questions for peer evaluation, and a sample research article assignment. (MM)

Data from several surveys and studies which examined the sports experience of over 2,000 female college athletes is summarized. Issues explored include reasons for and conditions surrounding sport participation, academic performance of female athletes, reactions to college sport, and post-college sport participation patterns. (IAH)

Cultural, religious, and economic factors limited Nigerian women's involvement in teaching until the mid-19th century. Now, increasing recruitment of women by teachers' colleges has pushed enrollment above men's. However, this is primarily not due to improved access or growing interest but to the desire to use teaching certificates for entry into…

Examines teaching practices against current theories of reading, writing, and critical thinking to explore how and why multiple classroom activities and deep immersions into literacy texts can give students the skills and knowledge they need to write effective papers, providing them also with a sense of connectedness to text that they might…

Describes how Lozanov's suggestopedia has influenced other teaching methods to create another approach to second-language teaching. One of the best of these approaches is one that creatively combines elements from suggestopedia with strategies and concepts taken from other communicative based approaches. (28 references) (Author/CK)

Maintains that commissioning musical works is almost as old as music itself and that it is a privilege to premiere a work that has been composed specifically for you and your chorus. Describes the approaches that classroom music teachers used to commission musical works. Includes seven guidelines. (CFR)

Outlines the distinction between science (as knowledge) and scientific culture and provides a description of how one obtains membership in that culture. Concludes that including the contributions of many different groups to scientific culture when teaching the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, is a good way to emphasize that everyone…

Presents a genetic game that allows students to construct a human face as determined by the random selection of alleles from a gene pool. Can be used to teach the concepts of chromosome inheritance, dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, multiple loci, independent assortment, multiple gene traits, and evolution. (JRH)

When older and younger students are paired, motivation, cooperation, friendship, and self-esteem flourish, and extra learning takes place. The article describes how to match students, presents five cross-grade projects, discusses project evaluation, and offers the option of cross-grade tutors. (SM)

Describes a technique used to motivate students to complete assigned journal readings in a college psychology course. Maintains that students completing readings receive two types of tangible benefits: (1) extra course credit and (2) use of their notecards on tests. Asserts that students responded favorably to the technique. (CFR)

The article presents a method for swimming teachers and coaches to stave off workout boredom in their students by using a circuit in the pool. After explaining how to set up a training circuit, the article describes sample stations and notes important safety precautions. (SM)

Five experiments with 586 college students investigated how ability differences, learning task characteristics, and motivational and volitional processes combine to explain performance differences in an associative memory or substitution task. Results are discussed in terms of developing a more comprehensive understanding of learner differences.…