Making the Grade A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform

Name: Making the Grade A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform
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ISBN: 9780521348034

ISBN-10: 052134803X

ISBN-13: 9780521348034

Edition: 1992

Authors: Martin V. Covington

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Achievement behavior in schools can be understood best in terms of students' attempts to maintain a positive self-image. For many students, expending effort is frightening because a combination of effort and failure implies low ability. They have a variety of techniques for avoiding failure, ranging from cheating to setting goals that are so easily achieved that no risk is involved. Although teachers usually reward achievement and punish lack of effort, for many students risking the sense of defeat that comes from trying hard and not succeeding is too daunting. In Making the Grade, Martin Covington extracts powerful educational implications from self-worth theory and other contemporary…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/24/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The Future and its Discontents: Prospects for building the future


The failure to learn: A motivational analysis


A moral tale



Motives as Emotions: Need achievement


The model: B = M x P x I


Analysis and critique


Further educational implications



Motives as thoughts: Cognitions versus emotions


Analysis and critique


Educational implications


Conclusions



Self-Worth and the Fear of Failure: Self-worth theory of achievement motivation


An arsenal of excuses


Motivated cognitions and coping


Conclusions



Achievement Anxiety: A brief history


Integration


Reducing anxiety


Conclusions



The Competitive Learning Game: The structure of learning


Scarcity of rewards


Competition and minorities


Conclusions



Motivational Equity and the Will to Learn: The problem


Solutions


Global gambit


Conclusions



Strategic Thinking and the Will to Learn: What is thinking?


The evidence


Strategic problems


Problem discovery


The transfer of knowledge


Analysis and conclusions



An Immodest Proposal: Serious games


Playing school


Schools and jobs


Prospects and conclusions



Obstacles to Change: The myths of competition


If not competition, then what?


Conclusions


Appendices


References


Index