The science achievement scores of 1,284 adults on a test of science knowledge were regressed on three composite independent variables: motivation, and prior and current educative experiences. Early educative experience predicts current activities of motivation; all three factors contribute to the prediction of achievement. (Author/LC)

An investigation of the effect of social power (defined in terms of instructors' manipulation of resources and students' dependence) revealed that the instructors' style of resource manipulation was significantly correlated with graduate students' mood and morale. Findings demonstrate the importance of social power for understanding classroom…

Social, cultural, and personal factors in moderating achievement attributions and evaluation anxiety as they affect math performance were studied for 397 Anglo, Black, and Hispanic students. Motivation contributed to low academic achievement in all groups; causal attributions were more predictive for Blacks and Anglos, while anxiety scores were…

The relationships among (a) student and group characteristics, group interaction, and achievement in small groups in junior high school mathematics classrooms and (b) the stability of these relationships over time were investigated. Interaction in the group was a potent predictor of achievement. (Author/LC)

To test a deduction from Carroll's Model of School Learning (i.e., increasing a learner's perserverance will not alter degree of learning or learning rate), time needed to learn a task under an encouragement condition designed to increase perserverance was compared to learning time under a discouragement condition. As predicted, no significant…

To assess the effects of enthusiasm training for teachers on students' academic performance, teachers were randomly assigned to training and no-training conditions. All teachers taught the same curriculum unit following training. Students of trained teachers did not achieve more than other students but were observed to be more often on-task.…

The role of negative instances in conjunctive feature identification tasks was investigated. Results support the classical favoring of positive over positive/negative for equal frequency of irrelevant features (l:l) but positive/negative over a positive for unequal frequency of irrelevant features (9:1) (p<.05). (Author)

Prior to 1975, students in Chicago Public Schools were assigned grade level tests, a practice that in 1974 resulted in 42 percent of the students scoring at the equivalent of a "chance" level. In 1975, the schools switched to functioning level testing. The change caused lower average test scores, but the percentage of chance scores dropped to…

This paper explores the debates which have contributed to the conceptual development of global education. The meaning of global education is clarified by exploring the relationship between various world views and the purposes of global education. The author contends that these perspectives determine the content and purpose of global education. (BW)

This review presents a conceptualization of global education. The literature reveals that there is a need to improve U.S. students' perspective of the world as an interdependent system; reveals the developmental nature of learning in global education; and points out the need to assess the impact of current global education programs. (BW)

To deal with an interdependent world, citizenship education can no longer be confined to the person in the street, must stress the analytical skills with which to trace the causal chains that entwine our lives, and must avoid scare tactics. The tools appropriate to training for citizenship in an interdependent world are listed. (BW)

Research was conducted to test whether a community-based approach to citizenship education could raise college student perceptions of their stake and efficacy in world affairs. The community-based approach was clearly associated with an increased perception of the importance of local and nongovernmental decision makers in world affairs. (BW)

The findings from an evaluation of Global Perspectives in Education were used to identify future research needs in the field of global education. (BW)

The research reported here was undertaken as part of an assessment of the Global Awareness Program dealing with teacher attitudes toward global education in general. Overall, teachers expressed a positive attitude toward global education, and noted the lack of appropriate instructional materials as the biggest obstacle to the growth of global…

This case study describes two sixth-grade teachers and how they gained the knowledge through cross-cultural experience which now makes them instructors who are role involved in the subject matter of world studies. (BW)