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Improving Academic Achievement


Impact of Psychological Factors on Education
A volume in Educational Psychology

Edited by:Joshua Aronson


ISBN: 978-0-12-064455-1
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Copyright 2002 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

Table of Contents

Contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments

Part I: Introductory Chapter


Chapter 1 - Self and Self-Belief in Psychology and Education: A Historical Perspective, Pages 3-21, Frank Pajares, Dale
H. Schunk
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Part II: Revisting and Extending Classic Lessons


Chapter 2 - The Pygmalion Effect and its Mediating Mechanisms, Pages 25-36, Robert Rosenthal
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Chapter 3 - Messages that Motivate: How Praise Molds Students' Beliefs, Motivation, and Performance (in
Surprising Ways), Pages 37-60, Carol S. Dweck
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Chapter 4 - The Paradox of Achievement: The Harder You Push, the Worse it Gets, Pages 61-87, Edward L. Deci,
Richard M. Ryan
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Chapter 5 - Improving the Academic Performance of College Students with Brief Attributional Interventions, Pages
89-108, Timothy D. Wilson, Michelle Damiani, Nicole Shelton
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Chapter 6 - Self-Handicapping and School: Academic Self-Concept and Self-Protective Behavior, Pages 109-134,
Frederick Rhodewalt, Michael W. Tragakis
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Chapter 7 - The Wisdom of Practice: Lessons Learned from the Study of Highly Effective Tutors, Pages 135-158, Mark
R. Lepper, Maria Woolverton
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Chapter 8 - Students' Motivation During the Middle School Years, Pages 159-184, Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. Eccles
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Chapter 9 - Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning: The Dynamic Duo in School Performance, Pages 185-208,
Pamela J. Gaskill, Anita Woolfolk Hoy
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Chapter 10 - Building Empathy, Compassion, and Achievement in the Jigsaw Classroom, Pages 209-225, Elliot Aronson
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Chapter 11 - Intelligence is not just Inside the Head: The Theory of Successful Intelligence, Pages 227-244, Robert J.
Sternberg
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Part III: Current Lessons


Chapter 12 - Being and Becoming a Good Person: The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Moral Development and
Behavior, Pages 247-266, David A. Pizarro, Peter Salovey
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Chapter 13 - Mozart and the Mind: Factual and Fictional Effects of Musical Enrichment, Pages 267-278, Frances H.
Rauscher
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Chapter 14 - Stereotype Threat: Contending and Coping with Unnerving Expectations, Pages 279-301
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Chapter 15 - A Barrier of Mistrust: How Negative Stereotypes Affect Cross-Race Mentoring, Pages 303-327, Geoffrey L.
Cohen, Claude M. Steele
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Chapter 16 - Toward a Resolution of an American Tension: Some Applications of the Helping Model of Affirmative
Action to Schooling, Pages 329-361, Anthony R. Pratkanis, Marlene E. Turner, Stanley B. Malos
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Chapter 17 - Social Exclusion in the Classroom: Teachers and Students as Agents of Change, Pages 363-383,
Amanda W. Harrist, K.Denise Bradley
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Index, Pages 385-395


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