Dweck’s article
Researchers who deal with specific research goals have made a distinct performance on performance goals which is the distinction of performance avoidance goals. The research stipulates that there is an avoidance form of performance goals that predict a low intrinsic motivation and performance with the goals often relating to a positive result in performance. The first study carried out by Dweck was intended to measure and compare the goals. This study explains the fact that the main difference in the goal ratings shows many significant differences. Studies one to three show evidence of four distinct types of goals namely, learning goals, outcome goals, ability-linked goals, performance goals and normative goals. All the three studies show that there is a difference in types of learning goals. The two types of learning goals are completely correlated and loaded together in component analyses. The studies four and five exhibit evidence that show the positive effects of learning goals of both intrinsic motivation and performance which is consistent with earlier researches on achievement goals.
The second article is about the beliefs that we as humans normally carry about ourselves and in the research. Dweck discovers that it has to do with what we view and what we inhabit in our minds. A fixed mindset often makes an assumption that the character, intelligence and the creative ability that we possess cannot be changed in any particular manner. The best part of this article was when Dweck gave the students a set of harder problems to handle and as expected they never did so well. According to the children, they were left wondering that they were not so smart after all or not gifted at all. However, Dweck puts it that if at all success meant that they were intelligent kids, then it therefore means that less than success meant that they were deficient of knowledge.
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A growth mindset conversely succeeds with the surrounding challenges and does not view a failure as a possible evidence of lack of intelligence, but it views it as a stepping stone to prosperity and growth and as a medium for exploring our possible existing abilities. It is from these two mindsets that we draw our individual behaviors, and it also dictates our reactions towards successes and towards failures in both official and unofficial capacities.
The last article is in the New York Times. It talks about a man in Riverdale Country School who is the headmaster of the prestigious school. The article presents Dominic Randolph as a free thinker and a determined man who often chases new ideas. In his whole 23 years career he has been trying to figure out how good schools should impart quality knowledge and character into students. The article is about Dominic Randolph trying to impart knowledge and develop good character among the students. The most interesting part of this article is the headmaster was able to coach the children and tame them into knowing how to deal with failure and get to postpone the gratification in pursuit of goals. However, reaching this level of emotional conditioning requires that a person knows how to suppress certain emotions to achieve a specific desired reaction which was wrong. The kids should have been left to practice all emotion or else they would get fewer emotions which will affect their daily life.
