Improving academic achievement : impact of psychological factors on education / edited by Joshua Aronson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self and self-belief in psychology and education : a historical perspective / Frank Pajares and Dale H. Schunk -- Pygmalion effect and its mediating mechanisms / Robert Rosenthal -- Messages that motivate : how praise molds students' beliefs, motivation, and performance (in surprising ways) / Carol S. Dweck -- Paradox of achievement : the harder you push, the worse it gets / Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan -- Improving the academic performance of college students with brief attributional interventions / Timothy D. Wilson, Michelle Damiani, and Nicole Shelton -- Self-handicapping and school : academic self-concept and self-protective behavior / Frederick Rhodewalt and Michael W. Tragakis -- Wisdom of practice : lessons learned from the study of highly effective tutors / Mark R. Lepper and Maria Woolverton -- Students' motivation during the middle school years / Allan Wigfield and Jacquelynne S. Eccles -- Self-efficacy and self-regulated learning : the dynamic duo in school performance / Pamela J. Gaskill and Anita Woolfolk Hoy -- Building empathy, compassion, and achievement in the jigsaw classroom / Elliot Aronson.

Intelligence is not just inside the head : the theory of successful intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg -- Being and becoming a good person : the role of emotional intelligence in moral development and behavior / David A. Pizarro and Peter Salovey -- Mozart and the mind : factual and fictional effects of musical enrichment / Frances H. Rauscher -- Stereotype threat : contending and coping with unnerving expectations / Joshua Aronson -- Barrier of mistrust : how negative stereotypes affect cross-race mentoring / Geoffrey L. Cohen and Claude M. Steele -- Toward a resolution of an American tension : some applications of the helping model of affirmative action to schooling / Anthony R. Pratkanis, Marlene E. Turner, and Stanley B. Malos -- Social exclusion in the classroom : teachers and students as agents of change / Amanda W. Harrist and K. Denise Bradley.

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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 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.

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