| Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education Contributor(s): Aronson, Joshua (Editor) |
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ISBN: 012064455X ISBN-13: 9780120644551 Publisher: Academic Press OUR PRICE: $136.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Psychology - Psychology | Social Psychology - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 370.15 |
| LCCN: 2001096798 |
| Series: Educational Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.04" W x 9.58" (1.55 lbs) 424 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |