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Carr, Martha; Barned, Nicole; Otumfuor, Beryl – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
This study examined the impact of performance goals on arithmetic strategy use, and how same-sex peer groups contributed to the selection of strategies used by first-graders. It was hypothesized that gender differences in strategy use are a function of performance goals and the influence of same-sex peers. Using a sample of 75 first grade…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Elementary School Students, Arithmetic, Grade 1
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Koenig, Elizabeth A.; Eckert, Tanya L.; Hier, Bridget O. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Although performance feedback interventions successfully lead to improvements in students' performance, research suggests that the combination of feedback and goal setting leads to greater performance than either component alone and that graphing performance in relation to a goal can lead to improvements in academic performance. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Goal Orientation, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills