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Cook, Ruth E. – Academic Therapy, 1983
The article offers suggestions for dealing with learning disabled children's apparent lack of achievement motivation, which may be a lack of belief that their actions affect academic and nonacademic achievement. Suggestions include establishing appropriate standards, focusing on effort rather than outcome, and promoting self-acceptance of credit…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Fewell, Deborah Harris – 1984
This curriculum guide is a systematic instructional strategy designed to enhance the intrinsic motivation of learning disabled adolescents. The complete strategy encompasses three major phases. Phase P (Preparing for Challenges) describes steps in preparing the classroom environment and presenting program goals to students. Phase A (Attacking…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies

Kozminsky, 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

Ellis, 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
Powers, Stephen; Rossman, Mark H. – 1983
Attributions for school success and failure were examined among 112 Native American and 99 Anglo students at a large, urban multi-campus community college system in the Southwest, by using the Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale. All subjects were in remedial reading classes; 48% were male and 52% were female. Mean age was 24.1,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, American Indian Education

Dart, Barry C.; Clarke, John A. – Higher Education, 1991
A preservice teacher education course in educational psychology focused on students (n=67) taking greater responsibility for learning through exposure to a variety of learning experiences, including curriculum negotiation, peer discussion and teaching, learning contracts, self/peer/collaborative assessment, and critical reflection. Locus of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Psychology, Evaluation Methods, Higher 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
Glasser, William – Learning, 1996
The choice theory holds that people can control only their own behavior, and that all people need a sense of belonging, freedom, power, and fun. This article argues that teachers must recognize that these needs motivate student behavior, and describes how a middle school turned its discipline and achievement problems around by using choice theory.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Coll. of Continuing Education. – 1984
These proceedings consist of 28 presentations. They include, in alphabetical order by author, "Data Collection Methods Used to Determine Training Needs of the Organization and the Adult Learner in Business and Industry" (Bart P. Beaudin), "Sex and the Split Brain: Does the Sex of the Mind Matter?" (Anne A. Bowbeer),…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation