Educational Psychology / Unit 7 EDP 0624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Which Attributions to Encourage
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The idea
Attributing success and failure to internal, controllable causes such as effort and strategy supports motivation; ability attributions can breed complacency or collapse after failure, and external attributions remove the incentive to learn.
In practice
"You found a better method" beats "You're so smart."
Where people slip
Effort attributions must be honest, backed by right-level tasks, reliable marking and teaching that ability grows.
Your place on the trail
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