Notes on dealing with hostility, withdrawal, anxiety, and rebellion in the classroom along with discussion of emotions that enhance learning and on developing sensitivity to emotions. (TA)

Finds substantial agreement between teachers and students on the range of overall factors affecting motivation; the sharp division between motivation as a personally-owned state and demotivation as a teacher-owned problem reported by students was not apparent across the teachers' perceptions; and differences among teachers in perceptions of their…

In Nigeria, 340 male and 160 female certified teachers studying for bachelor's degrees while working were surveyed. Primary motives for combining work and education were improvement of academic qualifications (85%), self-actualization (76%), effective job performance (58%), and job security (53%). (SK)

Introduces extensive reading as a way of improving students' attitudes and motivation toward English-as-a-Foreign-Language reading as well as improving their proficiency in reading and their English language ability. (Author/VWL)

The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire was completed by 197 business students, comparing self-regulated strategies in lecture versus hands-on computer lab. Effort regulation had a positive effect, peer learning a negative effect on learning computer concepts in lectures. Prior computer experience had no effect. Data were inconclusive…

Discusses a Korean learner's struggle to achieve English language proficiency over a 20-year period using an autobiographical approach. Concentrates on the issues of individual motivation and social learning environments and examines the interactions between this learner's motivation and affect, self-confidence, and environment. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the effects of medium of instruction and ability grouping (banding) of schools on students' learning and achievement orientation. The results showed that students studying in upper band schools (i.e., low-ability schools) used fewer strategies in learning, had lower self-efficacy, higher surface goal and lower attainment scores than…

Among theories of student departure from college, interactional theories--that attrition is a result of interaction between attributes of students and the institutional environment--are currently popular. Of particular interest to continuing educators is the direct effect of absenteeism and academic advising on dropout. (SK)

Six-month case studies of five physicians who attended an arrhythmia conference found that changes in their job performance were (1) incremental (70 percent), which usually required learning; (2) structural (17 percent), requiring redirections of life or practice; and (3) accommodational (13 percent), resulting from regulations. (SK)

Investigates the role of social interaction in the literacy learning of three- and four-year-olds. Finds that children's self-selected literacy activities are rich contexts for literacy learning, and that social interaction provides context and motivation for literacy learning, and influences the kinds of literacy strategies children internalize…

The article raises concerns about educational approaches which rely heavily on extrinsic reinforcers and offers instructional guidelines to promote intrinsic motivation in children with learning problems. Stressed is the importance of mediational dynamics between teacher and student in the learning process. (DB)

Discusses variables affecting the choice of learning strategies used by university foreign-language students (n=1,200). Research questions address the kind of strategies university foreign-language students report using and what variables influence the use of these strategies. (64 references) (Author/OD)

Until students have a much clearer idea of what a good education is and how it can be gained from what they are asked to do in school, they will not work hard. Beginning slowly, teachers must begin to demand higher quality work of their students. (MSE)

When it became apparent that change was necessary to alter Hatboro Horsham High School's (Pennsylvania) downward trend in grades and SAT scores, the school adopted "intensive scheduling," which is built on the 85-minute, 5-period day. Intensive scheduling proved very successful, and the school's statistics have improved greatly. (KDP)