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Download full textSeels, Barbara; And Others – 1996
Instructional message design must attract attention and result in learning by facilitating perception, comprehension, and retention. The purposes of this research are: (1) to develop a conceptual framework for message design; (2) to develop a systematic procedure for message design; and (3) to provide one basis for the development of a performance…
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Educational Theories, Focus Groups, Formative Evaluation
Kushman, James W., Ed. – 1997
Since 1988, a team composed of staff from 10 educational regional laboratories, teachers, administrators, and students have worked to become a learning community. This report describes the development and activities of the restructuring collaborative that gathered information on students and learning. Chapters 2 through 8 present case studies from…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Randall, Ruth E.; And Others – 1993
A study examined the Adult Diploma Program (ADP), a project of the Minnesota High School Graduation Incentives Program, which gives 2 years of state aid to qualified learners to complete their requirements. Its purpose was to explore how persons enrolled in ADP find out about it, factors that led to making the decision to enroll in ADP, daily…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Enrollment Influences, High School Equivalency Programs
Renninger, K. Ann, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This book examines recent theoretical and empirical contributions in the field of interest research. Chapters in part one address some general questions in the study of interest, while those in part two cover individual interest and learning in school. Chapters in part three examine situational interest, and the chapters in part four present…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interest Research
Butler, Sydney J.; Bentley, Roy – 1991
Growth into literacy occurs most effectively with the engagement of the learner. The question is therefore: what motivates learners to sustain them through the struggle to attain literacy? In this aspect of literacy education, "lifewriting" can be a most powerful medium. Basic to all of the lifewriting programs described in the text,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries, Group Activities, Individual Development
Renchler, Ron – 1992
This publication focuses on motivation at the school level and identifies ways in which administrators can improve student academic achievement. Chapter 1 discusses the influence of school culture on student motivation, based on recent research that suggests the importance of educational leaders in creating a motivating environment for improved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Lowman, Joseph – 1984
A model of effective college teaching is proposed, based on published research and informal interviews of reputed master teachers at schools in the Southeast and New England. Outstanding teaching was found to result primarily from a college teacher's skills at creating intellectual excitement and positive rapport in students. Skill at creating…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Communication Skills, Emotional Response, Higher Education
O'Hagan, Mimi – 1984
Advice for students entering college is provided. Overall topics include the challenges presented by college, the new freshman's interest in learning and study habits, course selection, class attendance, time management, and note taking. Specific topics that are briefly discussed are as follows: adjusting to many new experiences, the independence…
Descriptors: Attendance, College Freshmen, Courses, Decision Making
Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – Review of Educational Research, 1975
The importance of the role of meaningfulness as a learning variable is discussed. (DEP)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Interpretive Skills, Learning Motivation
Garrard, D. R. – Modern Languages, 1974
Surveys programs and techniques of language teaching in Europe both in industry and business and in the schools. (CK)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedMaehr, Martin L. – American Psychologist, 1974
A framework is suggested for the cross-cultural study of motivation that stresses the importance of contextual conditions in eliciting achievement motivation and emphasizes cultural relativity in the definition of the concept. (EH)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedKimpton, Jon R. – French Review, 1975
Reasons for requiring the study of French in high school and college are discussed. (PMP)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, French, Graduation Requirements, Higher Education
Melville, D. Scott; Maddalozzo, John G. F. – 1985
The purpose of this study was to determine if a male physical educator's appearance of body fatness affects his ability to teach and instill good exercise intentions in high school students. Eight hundred and fifty students viewed one of two 20-minute videotapes in which exercise concepts were presented. The tapes were identical except that in one…
Descriptors: Exercise, High Schools, Learning Motivation, Males
Titone, Renzo – 1990
The conventional psycholinguistic views of a strictly cognitive nature are reductive with respect to the complexity of the learning process. In language learning, motivation is viewed variously: (1) as a co-essential and equally powerful factor with linguistic aptitude and personality traits; (2) as arising from interaction between organism and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Dornyei, Zoltan – 1990
The components of motivation in foreign language (FL) learning are examined as well as the effect of those components on certain language learning behaviors. Two basic assumptions are derived from the results of the study. These include the following: (1) Motivation in FL learning contexts (e.g., learning English in Hungary) is different in some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis
