The high levels of anxiety, apprehension, and apathy of students in college algebra courses caused the instructor to create and test a variety of math teaching techniques designed to boost student confidence and enthusiasm in the subject. Overall, this proposal covers several different techniques, which have been evaluated by both students and the…

Taking into consideration the motivational needs of different students, the book discusses both internal and external motivators such as attaining a sense of achievement or leadership versus earning a physical reward such as candy or a field trip. These and other motivating factors are then incorporated into discussions of how to create productive…

In 1995, Cerritos College implemented a "Learning Community" approach with the intent of strengthening student academic success, especially among non-traditional, first generation college students. Thirty Learning Community clusters, seventy classes/instructors, and over four hundred students have been part of the learning communities…

This study investigates the influences and relationships between self-concept elements and students' activities in a normal school environment and focuses on individual self-construct. Interest has an important effect on an individual's learning process and behavior. There are three common definitions of interest: (1) interest as a characteristic…

This article describes the purpose, development, and implementation of a cognitive-based instructional intervention and its impact on learning motivation. The study was conducted in a programming-based problemsolving course for first-year engineering students. The results suggest that the instructional intervention developed based on the…

Discusses educational problems facing both the developed and developing countries and side effects of present technological developments to illustrate the importance of regarding man's learning as lifelong activities for the whole society. Suggests that the educational technology be widely used and developed through international cooperation and…

The findings of the main experiment and the replication support quite clearly the expectation that the use of rhetorical question-and-answer sequences in a lecture enhances the learning of factual materials in an audience that is not otherwise highly motivated to pay close attention. (Author)

Adaptation of a speech given at a meeting of the New York University Education Alumni in 1972 when author was awarded the 1972 Award for Creative Leadership in Education. (DS)

Discusses the advantages for the pupil and teacher in utilizing audiovisual aids in the classroom. (RK)

Article discusses student knowledge of learning progress from an individualized instruction point of view. (Author/HB)

Open door education attempts to bring into the learning situation a previously untapped student population, one that is drawn from economically deprived and politically disenfranchised central city residents. (Author/RK)

Lists advantages and disadvantages of individualized instruction. (Author/RK)

Discusses the teaching-learning psychological technique called transactional analysis and its application in the classroom (RK)