Making the Grade: A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform by Martin V. Covington

Making the Grade: A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform

Martin V. Covington

364 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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Achievement behavior in schools can be understood best in terms of students' attempts to maintain a positive self-image. For many students, expending effort is frightening because a combination of effort and failure implies low ability. They have ...

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