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Jans, Steven – 1997
Following research that documented inadequate motivation as a problem through assessment of academic performance, student motivational surveys, teacher class records, and teacher journal entries, a program was conducted to increase the level of motivation of junior high school students in a middle-class community in central Illinois. Observations…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Industrial Arts, Intelligence, Junior High Schools

Buffer, James J.; Miller, Patrick W. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1978
Reports results of a study on the effectiveness of various methods of teaching metric linear measuring concepts to educable mentally retarded junior high school students. Contrary to expectations, superiority of the industrial arts treatment using physical measurement activities over the workbook method was not demonstrated. (MF)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Industrial Arts, Junior High Schools, Learning Modalities