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• • Learning About Learning Boosts Student Motivation and SuccessFor over 30 years, Carol Dweck has studied students’ motivation in order to find out what makes motivated students tick and she says: “Here is the most important thing I have learned: The most motivated and resilient students are not the ones who think they have a lot of fixed or innate intelligence. Instead, the most motivated and resilient students are the ones who believe that their abilities can be developed through their effort and learning”.
    Read [[http://www.cea-ace.ca/pub.cfm?subsection=edu&page=onl|Dweck’s article]] for more about teaching students about learning.
    
    
    
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    Students who had attended elementary schools where-Yarborough and Johnson (1980)Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:13 -- adminStudents who had attended elementary schools where no grades were given did just as well in junior high school as a carefully matched sample of students who had received traditional report cards for six years.
    
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    Just because you do well on a test doesn’t mean -Saskatoon StudentFri, 01/18/2008 - 12:12 -- adminJust because you do well on a test doesn’t mean you are a good person.
    
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    When the curriculum was engaging – in this case,-Moeller and Reschke (1993)Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:11 -- adminWhen the curriculum was engaging – in this case, involving hands-on, interactive learning activities at the junior high school level – students who weren’t graded at all did just as well on a proficiency exam as those who were.
    
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    -Anderman et al (1978)Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:11 -- adminThe more schools emphasize grades and other indicators of performance, the more likely students are to cheat, even if they know it’s wrong.
    
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    -Alfie KohnFri, 01/18/2008 - 12:10 -- adminA preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning.
    
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    -Gail JonesFri, 01/18/2008 - 12:09 -- adminThe bottom line is, do you want to have a child who can take tests well or do you want to have a well-educated child?
    
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    Do Grades Really Matter?: Mounting Evidence Suggests Grades Don't Predict SuccessA growing body of evidence suggests that grades don’t predict success. It turns out that C+ students are the ones who end up running the world. This article challenges the idea that grades tell us who we are or what we are capable of.
    
    Read the full text of this article on the Macleans magazine website: [[http://www.macleans.ca/education/postsecondary/article.jsp?content=20070910_109139_109139| Do Grades Really Matter?]]
    
    
    
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    Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessThu, 12/27/2007 - 14:45 -- adminA leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. It shapes our goals, our attitude toward work and relationships, and how we raise our kids, ultimately predicting whether or not we will fulfill our potential. Dweck has found that everyone has one of two basic mindsets.
    
    
    
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    Students' View of Intelligence Can Help GradesIf you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school says a 2007 study by psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University.
    
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    [[http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/february7/dweck-020707.html| Read a brief report]] from the Stanford University news service on the implications of Carol Dweck’s research in this area.
    
    View [[http://changelearning.trevortwining.com/books/mindset-new-psychology-success|Mindset: the New Psychology of Success]],Dweck’s book on the topic.
    
    
    
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    Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades: Carol Dweck SpeaksThu, 12/27/2007 - 14:15 -- admin
    A 2007 study by psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
    
    This video captures a conversation between Stanford Report writer Lisa Trei and psychologist Carol Dweck about the ways in which people’s self-theories about intelligence have a profound influence on their motivation to learn.
    
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    [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7406521| Listen to an interview]] with study author psychologist Carol Dweck on the National Public Radio website.
    
    
    
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