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Download full textJans, 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
Maher, Phillip Ray – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the effects of instructional objectives as advance organizers prior to a reading assignment, determine if an advance organizer was more effectively presented with two learning modalities than with one; predict whether vocabulary or readability variables influenced comprehension; and determine whether…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Dimitroff, Michael Lee – 1975
A total of 138 middle-class first graders in two parochial schools were studied to determine whether a phonics reading approach was superior to a contextual reading approach in reading achievement, whether auditory learners achieve in reading to a greater extent than visual learners, and whether auditory or visual learners achieve in one program…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Worley, William E. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine criteria for helping students decide if they would profit more from traditional methods of instruction or from independent and individualized methods. Four areas were studied: whether traditional methods were superior to individualized methods; whether students preferred either method; whether there was a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction
King, Dwade Robert – 1975
This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth
Dequin, Henry Conrad – 1972
To determine whether student achievement could be improved by matching cognitive style to instructional mode, a study was undertaken with 184 high school sophomores and juniors. Students were tested for reading and listening ability and preference and assigned to instruction based on reading and audio presentations. Ability was also tested.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes
