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Cluck, Margaret; Hess, Diane – 2003
This report describes a plan for using the multiple intelligences to increase student motivation. The target population consisted of a sixth grade reading class in a rural setting, and second, fourth, and fifth grade students in a pullout ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) program in an urban setting. The lack of motivation became evident as…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Coleman, Kathy; Peters, Pamela; Murray, Linda; Pawlicki, Lorraine; Wemple, Rosalie; Johnson, Sheila – 1997
This action research project evaluated a program for decreasing the gap in achievement levels among primary and secondary level students in the targeted schools. The subjects, from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds ranging from lower to upper-middle class, were students in Chicago city and suburban public and Catholic schools. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning
Nusbaum, Joanne; Walker, Brenda; Finch-Webster, Jennifer – 2001
This paper describes the implementation and development of a program promoting gender equity in the classroom and the lessening of stereotypical attitudes toward gender. Gender equity issues affected most of the students in the targeted intermediate and secondary special needs and general population. Male and female students exhibited…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Research