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Hochanadel, Aaron; Finamore, Dora – Journal of International Education Research, 2015
Students face a wealth of challenges in college for example a lack of support, sometimes making it difficult to persevere. However, in an academic environment that teaches grit and fosters growth, students can learn to persist. Those who believe intelligence is fixed and cannot be changed exert less effort to succeed. Students who persevere when…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Ability, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
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LaSalle, Dan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Struck by his students' often hostile and apathetic responses to assignments and instruction and hoping to contribute to the knowledge of motivation, Dan LaSalle began to take an inquiry stance on his own practice. He studied his practice on three fronts with the help of an off-site teacher research group: (1) how his inquiry question changes as a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Essays, Writing Instruction, Inquiry
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2022
The intersection in 2020 of the new COVID-19 pandemic with the ongoing pandemic of anti-black racism exacerbated existing injustices as well as caused and revealed new inequities in US higher education. Because inequities in assessment in particular were intensified by these twin pandemics, faculty at several US colleges revised assessment…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Student Evaluation
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Thoder, Vincent J.; Hesky, James G.; Cautilli, Joseph D. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2010
Children often have complex emotional and behavioral disorders (ADHD, ODD, Depression, PTSD, etc.). A large amount of research exists in the behavioral treatment of children with these disorders regarding specific behavioral problems. Much less research exists for the treatment of comprehensive problematic behaviors that these children experience…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Behavior Disorders, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Depression (Psychology)
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Roberts, Laura; White, George – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
There are effective conflict transformation programs available for students at the middle level. What is missing is a program designed to have an enduring message, that is, a message that is both positive and vivid. Project WIN provided a positive message by teaching students how to create a justice-based community in their classrooms and the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Low Income Groups, Conflict, Urban Youth