The effects of mathematics anxiety and gender on attitudes toward mathematics were examined using the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Instrument (ATMI). A sample of 134 students currently enrolled in mathematics classes in a state university was asked to complete the ATMI. Data were analyzed using a multivariate factorial model with four factors of…

This qualitative study focused primarily on career women, managing learning, and the application of lifelong learning concepts. The main purpose of the study was to discover how lifelong learning concepts may have been instrumental in influencing the vision, attitude, and goals of the 20 career women included in this inquiry (two women were…

This paper has suggested that many, if not most, students need practice in decision making and added motivation for learning the material in the school curriculum. (Author)

This is a report on research designed to test an attitude-consumption hypothesis, that student interest in economics relates to the quantity of learning and incidence of taking courses in economics. (Author/JH)

The extent to which motivational strategies work with individual learners is closely related to the extent that they satisfy or reward fundamental human drives toward achievement, acceptance, knowledge and activity. (Author)

Analysis of difference in learning when students choose their own partners or randomly assigned pairs in a high school chemistry program. (HB)

The present study was undertaken to investigate differences in high school performance scholastic aptitude, and achievement motivation between disadvantaged college students who persisted successfully for 2 years and those who discontinued their studies before completing 1 year at an urban commuter university. (Author)

Paper attempts to show three different types of teaching and their relevance in the elevation of educational clarification and improvement. (RK)

Argues that the problem with education centers around the fact that large numbers of people are being forced to learn that which other people have decided will be good for them. Contends that the only legitimate educational framework is one that helps people learn whatever it is they may happen to want to find out. (Author/JF)

Brief comments on the following four problems: (1) Is it really much harder to teach mathematics to disadvantaged kids? (2) Has modern mathematics" had a positive or negative effect on students other than those college-capable? (3) Effect of the mathematics laboratory movement in regard to teaching children (4) Characteristics evidenced by…

Recommends The Christensen Rhetoric Program" but cautions against the fatigue factor and the correctness syndrome" in using it; describes poetry-writing exercises that the author has used successfully with students who have used Christensen materials. (Author/ RD)

Describes an after-school program of sports directed education in mathematics and spelling for minority group students, using minority group college students as coaches. (AN)