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Development of perception of own attainment and causal attributions for success and failure in reading.
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Motivational processes affecting learning.
TL;DR: In this article, Dweck describes adaptive and maladaptive motivational patterns and presents a research-based model of motivational processes and argues that this approach has important implications for practice and the design of interventions to change maladaptative motivational processes, and observes that empirically based interventions may prevent current achievement discrepancies.
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Self-Efficacy and Academic Motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of person variables (goal setting and information processing) and situation variables (models, attributional feedback, and rewards) on self-efficacy and motivation are reviewed.
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Achievement motivation: Conceptions of ability, subjective experience, task choice, and performance.
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that ability can be conceived in two ways: high or low with reference to the individual's own past performance or knowledge, or competence relative to that of others, and that a gain in mastery alone does not indicate high ability.
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Age and Gender Differences in Children's Self‐ and Task Perceptions during Elementary School
TL;DR: Factor analyses showed that even the first graders had differentiated self-beliefs for the various activities, and indicated that children's competence beliefs and subjective task values formed distinct factors.
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Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation: A Developmental Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the development of young children's competence beliefs, expectancies for success, subjective task values, and achievement goals can be incorporated into the model of achievement performance and choice from a developmental perspective.
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Human Characteristics and School Learning
TL;DR: A good writer is a good reader at once as mentioned in this paper... You can define how you write depending on what books to read and this human characteristics and school learning can help you to solve the problem.
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An Analysis of Learned Helplessness: Continuous Changes in Performance, Strategy, and Achievement Cognitions Following Failure.
Carol Diener,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored helpless versus mastery-oriented differences in the nature, timing, and relative frequency of a variety of achievement-r elated cognitions by continuously monitoring verbalizations following failure and found that helpless children made the expected attributions for failure to lack of ability; mastery oriented children made surprisingly few attributions but instead engaged in self-monitoring and self-instructions.
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The Development of the Concepts of Effort and Ability, Perception of Academic Attainment, and the Understanding that Difficult Tasks Require More Ability.
TL;DR: In this article, the development of the capacity to infer ability required by tasks of different difficulty levels and the belief that more difficult tasks have greater incentive value of success were described, and it was suggested that these findings help account for certain developmental changes in achievement behavior.