Optimizing student success in school with the other three rs
Subtitle: reasoning, resilience, and responsibility
By: edited by Robert J. Sternberg  and Rena F. Subotnik.
Contributors: Sternberg, Robert J.; Subotnik, Rena Faye.
Series: Research in educational productivity
Publisher: IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc.; IAP-Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching; Reasoning -- Study and teaching; Resilience (Personality trait) -- Study and teaching; Responsibility -- Study and teaching; Academic achievement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reasoning, resilience, and responsibility from the standpoint of the WICS theory of higher mental processes / Robert J. Sternberg; title: 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; title: Special focus on reasoning; title: The role of knowledge in the development of mathematical reasoning / Richard E. Mayer; title: Promoting deaf childrens mathematical reasoning by using their visual-spatial strengths / Terezinha Nunes; title: Performance data and proven practices: empowering tools to spur high levels of student reasoning and achievement; title: Tom Luce and lee Thompson; title: Resilience; title: Resilience and risk in learning : complex interactions and comprehensive interventions / Mary M. Brabeck and Mary E. Walsh; title: Contents; title: Resilience as a factor in overcoming obstacles to high academic achievement / Edmund W. Gordon and Brenda X. Mejia; title: Responsibility; title: Enhancing students' academic responsibility and achievement : a social-cognitive self-regulatory account; title: Barry J. Zimmerman; title: A motivational perspective on school achievement : taking responsibility for learning, teaching, and supporting  Jacqueline S. Eccles; title: Model; title: Integrating the other three rs into the school curriculum : a model for improving achievement / Jeanine C. Cogan, Robert J. Sternberg, and Rena F. Subotnik; title: Summary; title: The other 3 rs: implications for the design of learning; title: Environments, research, and policy / Susan Goldman.