What Underachieving
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
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Middle School Students Believe Motivates them to Learn |
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Chapter 1: The Challenge to Educate Everyone Chapter 2: A Review of Literature Chapter 3: Methods
Chapter 4: The Results Chapter 5: Discussion |
As described in Chapter 1, through four case studies, this study tries to gain insight into what underachieving middle school students believe motivates them to learn. These four case studies were conducted on two teams in two different schools. One seventh grade boy and one seventh grade girl on each team were the subjects of the case studies. This design offered multiple perspectives: two perspectives per class, two genders, and two schools. To help support and validate the findings, two teachers on each team were interviewed, at least 10 hours of classroom observation were conducted, and quantitative data taken from the State of Maine Aspirations Benchmarking Initiative was examined. This chapter will present the research methods selected for this study. It opens with a description of how the participants were selected. Next is an overview of the data collection methods used. The chapter ends by describing how the data was analyzed. |
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Send questions or comments to wilder@somtel.com Last updated April 25, 2001 |
Assistant Professor of Education University of Maine at Farmington 104 Main Street Farmington, ME 04938 207.778.7179 wilder@somtel.com http://violet.umf.maine.edu/~mmuir |