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Hang on in there: could encouragement be more useful than praise?

Sep 27, 2013 | Category: learning
Last week I expanded on some of my doubts about the concept of praise, particularly the current consensus that we should be going out of our way to praise effort. I concluded by saying, "no one would...
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Is praise counter productive?

Sep 22, 2013 | Category: behaviour
I had an interesting discussion with Tim Taylor this morning. He said,  "At best, praising effort has a neutral or no effect when students are successful, but is likely to be negative when students ar...
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