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Hajimu Hayashi; Ayumi Matsumoto; Minehiro Akagawa – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
This study examined the development of the evaluation of praise that differs in congruence between what the praiser is praising (i.e. effort or ability) and what led the recipient to succeed. Children aged 7 and 8 years (second graders) and 10 and 11 years (fifth graders), as well as adults, made emotional and motivational evaluations about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 5
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Rotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores