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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 20, 20222 min read
Trying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 15, 20182 min read
How to motivate students
Many believe “extrinsic” motivators, such as incentives, “decrease student effort by eroding students’ intrinsic desire to learn,” they...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 2, 20181 min read
Praising effort may backfire
Praising students’ effort, rather than their intelligence, is supposed to encourage them to try harder, improve and build a “growth...
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