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Glerum, Jaap; Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Wijnia, Lisette; Rikers, Remy M. J. P. – Educational Psychology, 2020
The present study investigates the effects of different kinds of praise on 108 students in vocational education, using a similar design as the original mindset studies. Students worked on a set of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and either received praise for effort, received praise for intelligence, or were in the control group. Results…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Positive Reinforcement, Feedback (Response), Intention
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Smeets, Paul M.; Striefel, Sebastian – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Stephens, Mark W. – 1972
Current research indicates the possible influence of IE development on cognitive development. Efforts are being made to identify behaviors by which parents or teachers can increase development of internal control expectancies in preschool children. Studies correlating children's IE scores with various mother behaviors or mother-child interaction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Correlation, Intellectual Development
Nordin, Abu Bakar – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1980
The central question for this study is whether the improvement of group instruction can increase achievement to the same level as or even higher than that produced by the feedback-corrective process used in mastery learning. It is hoped that the findings can be of interest to developing countries. (RL)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cues, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics