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Download full textKeller, John M.; And Others – 1978
This guidebook was designed to familiarize educational practitioners--teachers, developers, counselors, administrators--with several concepts of motivation and methods of measuring them. Six concepts, or approaches, that are particularly relevant to understanding motivation in education are considered: achievement motivation, locus of control,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Curiosity, Educational Attitudes
Peer reviewedKozminsky, Ely; Kozminsky, Lea – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article demonstrates how to improve students' learning motivation by means of an attributional dialogue between teachers and students. Students are asked to describe events and to explain to what they attributed success or failure. Dialogue pages of a typically achieving learner and a student with learning disabilities are provided. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Writing
Willings, David; Greenwood, Bill – Gifted Education International, 1990
A program of intervention called therapeutic tutoring to help underachievers is described. Intervention centers around students' loci of control, through a process of identifying areas in which students feel empowered and relating academic experiences to these areas. Academic exercises based on Monopoly, cricket, rugby, soap operas, field hockey,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Individual Power
Peer reviewedEllis, Edwin S. – Remedial and Special Education, 1998
This follow-up article outlines goals, principles, and techniques for improving curriculum and instruction for secondary students with learning disabilities so that the following affective goals are fostered: intrinsic motivation, internal locus of control, academic and social self-concept, self-esteem, a sense of competence and confidence, an…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Curriculum Development, Emotional Development, Humanistic Education
Long, Patricia; Bowen, Jean – 1995
This brief paper suggests ways of involving students with learning disabilities and/or attention deficits in their own learning, with a systematic program intended to build self-understanding and a healthy internal locus of control. The program is based on the concept of multiple intelligences and the many different ways in which students and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Mitchell, Charlie; Young, William – 1979
The first section of this two-part paper presents a brief discussion of the planning, pilot implementation, and benefits of Assessment and Advisement 100, a one-unit, self-paced, student development course offered at Mesa Community College. The course was designed to help entering students define why they are in college, determine what they want…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Evaluation
