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Elmore, Kristen; Oyserman, Daphna; Smith, George; Novin, Sheida – AERA Open, 2016
The motivational impact of messages about how to interpret experienced difficulty with schoolwork was tested in two studies. Students read that experienced difficulty with schoolwork is a signal either of the importance or of the impossibility of succeeding in school, rated how much they agreed, and completed a difficult task (Raven's Progressive…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students