This was the reason given to me by a fifth grade teacher as to why I, a student teacher at the time, shouldn’t give extra help to a child who was working hard to improve her reading. Once my shock at ...
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you’d need a heart of stone not to scoff at a certain Harvard Crimson headline: “Harvard Professors Cancel Classes as Students Feel Blue After Trump Win.” Courses like ...
According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory, a student’s self-efficacy influences his or her academic and career decisions, and his or her performance outcomes; as such, a student’s self-efficacy ...
This preliminary research examined the effectiveness of a classroom counseling intervention on student self-efficacy development. Five first-grade classrooms in a rural school with high rates of ...
There’s a reason the words “believe in yourself” are plastered on classroom signs and cross-stitched on throw pillows. Your sense of self-efficacy, or the belief that you can accomplish what you set ...
Self-respect (also referred to as “appraisal self-respect”) is the belief that someone deserves dignity and regard because ...