Some argue that the goal of education is to influence out-of-school learning activity, yet little research exists on how teachers can help students develop an interest in a topic and continue to pursue that interest outside of school. The current study tested classroom context variables from self-determination theory (teachers' autonomy support)…

This paper is a qualitative case study of a Korean first grade child. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of a first grade Korean child's oral language interactions with teachers, parents, peers, and community members and to examine how a child's oral language impacts his literacy learning in English. The data were…

This review examines instructional design models and the construction of knowledge. It further explores to identify the chilling benefits of these models for the inputs and outputs of knowledge transfer. This assessment also attempts to define instructional design models through the eyes and the minds of renowned scholars as well as the most…

Using the model of domain learning as a theoretical framework, the study was designed to examine the extent to which learners' initial learning profiles based on previously acquired knowledge, learning strategy application, and interest-based motivation were distinctive in learning softball. Participants were 177 sixth-graders from three middle…

Developmentalists state that children are born with the intrinsic motivation to learn, but studies show that this intrinsic desire to learn begins to wane during the early school years, around third grade, and continues a steady decline through eighth grade. Intrinsic motivation is at the core of information literacy, the foundation for a desire…

This study was conducted to determine the effects of achievement motivation, and immediate vs. delayed feedback on retention. (PB)

Based upon author's Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.

This study involving ninth-grade algebra students investigated whether learning in environments identified in previous research as effective (i.e., exhibiting high levels of learner involvement) elicit significantly higher levels of relevant achievement than do ineffective learning environments. (Author)

Recognizes three kinds of motivation: Societally induced, native, and motivation acquired in early life. Implications for teaching are discussed, both in general and specifically in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

In the formal school setting, the control of learning has typically been placed with the wrong person--the teacher. By modifying the control mechanism in the educational process and elevating the student to a position of "determining individual destiny," a catalyst for motivated learning may evolve. (JOW)

Describes the learning experiences of three kindergarten students, providing an account of their teacher overcoming prejudice toward computers. (BJD)

Seven principles of learning are examined as they relate to student evaluation. In considering those principles, student evaluation can help the teacher discover weaknesses and strengths in the evaluation methods while diagnosing the weaknesses and strengths of the students' learning. (AG)