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Social psychological research has revealed much about how personal and interpersonal factors impact academic achievement. The research has been reported in several different outlets but has never before been condensed in an easy to read, engaging book, targeting the hot topics of coffee table debate...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Educational psychology series
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780120644551 |
| Summary: |
Social psychological research has revealed much about how personal and interpersonal factors impact academic achievement. The research has been reported in several different outlets but has never before been condensed in an easy to read, engaging book, targeting the hot topics of coffee table debates. This book does just that, offering review chapters by the most influential researchers of today, written for an audience of educational and cognitive psychologists as well as school administrators, teachers, policy makers, and parents. Section one focuses on what motivates students, how self-esteem affects the learning process, the consequences of achievement goals, the effects of student attributions of success and failure, self-handicapping, methods of strategic learning, and how to successfully use one's intelligence. Section two discusses how the offering of rewards may affect achievement, how teacher expectations may affect student performance, the effects of stereotypes, feedback, and social rejection. There's also a discussion of effective means of turning at-risk students into scholars, and how students can successfully traverse transitions to middle school. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 395 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585469164 9780585469164 9780080508535 0080508537 |
| Index Number: | LB1062 |
| CLC: | G44 |
| Contents: |
Self and self-belief in psychology and education : a historical perspective / Pygmalion effect and its mediating mechanisms / Messages that motivate : how praise molds students' beliefs, motivation, and performance (in surprising ways) / Paradox of achievement : the harder you push, the worse it gets / Improving the academic performance of college students with brief attributional interventions / Self-handicapping and school : academic self-concept and self-protective behavior / Wisdom of practice : lessons learned from the study of highly effective tutors / Students' motivation during the middle school years / Self-efficacy and self-regulated learning : the dynamic duo in school performance / Building empathy, compassion, and achievement in the jigsaw classroom / Intelligence is not just inside the head : the theory of successful intelligence / Being and becoming a good person : the role of emotional intelligence in moral development and behavior / Mozart and the mind : factual and fictional effects of musical enrichment / Stereotype threat : contending and coping with unnerving expectations / Barrier of mistrust : how negative stereotypes affect cross-race mentoring / Toward a resolution of an American tension : some applications of the helping model of affirmative action to schooling / Social exclusion in the classroom : teachers and students as agents of change / |