Optimizing student success in school with the other three Rs : reasoning, resilience, and responsibility / edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Rena F. Subotnik.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Research in educational productivity.
Other Authors: Sternberg, Robert J.
Subotnik, Rena Faye
Language:English
Published: Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub., [2006], ©2006.
Series:Research in educational productivity.
Subjects:
Thought and thinking > Study and teaching.
Reasoning > Study and teaching.
Resilience (Personality trait) > Study and teaching.
Responsibility > Study and teaching.
Academic achievement.
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Physical Description:vi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Reasoning, resilience, and responsibility from the standpoint of the WICS theory of higher mental processes / Robert J. Sternberg
  • Motivational orientations that lead students to show deeper levels of reasoning, greater responsibility for their academic work, and greater resilience in the face of academic difficulty / Catherine Good and Carol S. Dweck
  • Special focus on reasoning
  • The role of knowledge in the development of mathematical reasoning / Richard E. Mayer
  • Promoting deaf children's mathematical reasoning by using their visual-spatial strengths / Terezinha Nunes
  • Performance data and proven practices: empowering tools to spur high levels of student reasoning and achievement
  • Tom Luce and Lee Thompson
  • Resilience
  • Resilience and risk in learning : complex interactions and comprehensive interventions / Mary M. Brabeck and Mary E. Walsh
  • Contents
  • Resilience as a factor in overcoming obstacles to high academic achievement / Edmund W. Gordon and Brenda X. Mejia
  • Responsibility
  • Enhancing students' academic responsibility and achievement : a social-cognitive self-regulatory account
  • Barry J. Zimmerman
  • A motivational perspective on school achievement : taking responsibility for learning, teaching, and supporting / Jacquelynne S. Eccles
  • Model
  • Integrating the other three Rs into the school curriculum : a model for improving achievement / Jeanine C. Cogan, Robert J. Sternberg, and Rena F. Subotnik
  • Summary
  • The other 3 Rs: implications for the design of learning environments, research, and policy / Susan Goldman.