Author Topic: Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment  (Read 375 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

rangerrebew

  • Guest
Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment

Date:
    September 19, 2017
Source:
    Society for Research in Child Development
Summary:
    A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' self-concepts of their abilities in these two academic domains play an important role in motivating their achievements over time and across levels of achievement.
Share:

FULL STORY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170919091005.htm

Oceander

  • Guest

Offline Suppressed

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12,921
  • Gender: Male
    • Avatar
Longitudinally true; however, when you compare American students to others, we overestimate our abilities.
+++++++++
“In the outside world, I'm a simple geologist. But in here .... I am Falcor, Defender of the Alliance” --Randy Marsh

“The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“He's so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent.” --Foghorn Leghorn