What are the most common motives invoked by 9th graders when asked about their plans to take (or not) more mathematics courses during high school? How do beliefs about math course-taking affect students' actual planning? To what extent is planning of math course-taking associated with high school students' sociodemographic backgrounds? The study…

A key challenge in marketing courses is to stimulate student curiosity and interest in marketing research. Depending on how the material is presented, student perceptions are often favorably or unfavorably polarized on this subject. That is, research can be perceived as either intriguing and intellectually stimulating or uninteresting and…

Experimental courses offer a good opportunity to work with competences, promoting the incorporation of strategies oriented towards motivating students to actively involve in the learning process, promoting reflexive learning and developing generic skills. This study presents different ways of developing and evaluating some important general…

Research findings on optimum use of the first day of class are mixed. Past data gathered from students from various disciplines support a first day designed to distribute the course syllabus and explain class expectations, rules, and policies. Additional literature supports a different approach to the first day; one designed to immediately engage…

Game-based classroom activity is intended to leverage students' interest and motivation to play, and to provide safe contexts for supporting students' academic learning. However, a basic criticism of many games currently used in classroom settings is that they can fail to meaningfully embody academic content. A more subtle concern is that…

A classification scheme for the affective domain in relation to science education is presented in this article to clarify student's affective behaviors and their representative phenomena. Discussion is made in connection with the content-objectives grid in the cognitive domain. An analogous grid for the affective domain is delineated by a…

Originally presented as a speech at the Annual Meeting of the Commission on Curriculum of the National Council of Teachers of English, November 25, 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)

Article addressed the question of whether or not behavioral objectives are useful as an educational tool for the music educator. (Author/RK)

This report describes organic curriculum development, the redefinition of goals, and the overhaul of the educational process in the public schools of Quincy, Massachusetts. Superintendent of 15 school districts met in Florida in May 1967 to establish the initial network of the program entitled Educational System for the Seventies (ES '70). The…

Discusses how the behavior contract becomes a method of giving the student specific "things to do" while avoiding the process of nagging him to do something. (Author)

This report describes the development of an organic curriculum in the public schools of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Superintendents of 13 school districts met with members of the U. S. Office of Education in May 1967 to establish the initial network of the curriculum overhaul program entitled Educational Systems for the Seventies (ES'70). This…

This report describes organic curriculum development, the redefinition of goals, and the overhaul of the educational process in the public schools of Mineola, New York. In May 1967, superintendents met in Florida to establish the initial network for the program entitled the Educational System for the Seventies (ES '70). This report reflects the…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Five of the Quality Education Program (regarding good citizenship) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

In this paper, the authors contend that professional development often focuses on, and advocates, a particular instructional strategy, such as the use of hands-on instruction. In the lessons observed in the "Inside the Classroom Study," however, it was found that instructional strategy did not determine lesson quality. Consequently, the authors…

Presents three research studies illustrating applications of behavior management principles in three secondary school settings. (Author/RK)