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Cognitive Developmental Level Gender, and the Development of Learned Helplessness on Mathematical Calculation and Reasoning Tasks.

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Monaco, Nanci M.; Gentile, J. Ronald – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987

This study was designed to test whether a learned helplessness treatment would decrease performance on mathematical tasks and to extend learned helplessness findings to include the cognitive development dimension. Results showed no differential advantages to either sex in resisting effects of learned helplessness or in benefiting from strategy…

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Helplessness, High Schools, Locus of Control

Self-Regulated Learning: Implications for the Design of Instructional Media.

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Henderson, Ronald W. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1986

Principles arising from aspects of Vygotsky's ideas for the development of self regulation and from cognitive social learning theory are discussed. It is suggested that present methods of teaching mathematics are not adequate and that the use of instructional technology is needed to overcome the shortcomings. (JAZ)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Helplessness, Information Technology