Educational Success: Marita's Bargain
Educational Success: The factors that make a student
Successful in school.
An Annotated Bibliography
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Marita's Bargain”. Chasing Success, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp. 3-13.
Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker from Ontario, Canada analyzes the reasons for why some people can achieve success and why others do not. Students are generally centralized in the topic of how success is achieved and how KIPP schools reinforce the students to acknowledge the act of persistence. KIPP schools train the students how to be better learners to therefore set them up for a road of success. Patterns and certain methods are used to enhance the young minds. Students are held in an excessive amount of school days from …show more content…
Dweck, a psychology graduate student from Yale University, uses animal experiment data from psychologist Martin Seligman from the university of Pennsylvania to show how some students give up when faced to difficulty, whereas others continue to learn and strive. The researchers observed how animals give up after repeated failures and as the result of the experiment, Dweck is able to compare these behaviors to those of students; Dweck wondered if students also give up when face to face with a difficult situation or continue to strive despite the difficulty of the situation. With this in mind, Dweck developed a theory in which there are two classes of learners, The helpless learner's mindset, which believe that intelligence is a fixed trait and only reaches a certain point. Versus the mastery-oriented learners, or learners with “Growth mindsets” which on the other hand, believe that intelligence can be shaped or molded through education and effort. The benefit of having a growth mindset within a student’s perspective is that they are in store for significant academic success rather than those fellow mates who have a fixed mindset. In similar fashion to Malcolm Gladwell’s study on students in KIPP schools, Dweck, along with Lisa Blackwell of Columbia University and Kali H. Trzesniewski of Stanford University monitored 373 students in jr high school to deduce how their mindsets will affect their math grades. The students were given mindset statements and were tested according to their beliefs to get the result of their grades. The final result confirmed how the students with growth mindset beliefs received superior test scores in comparison to those who held a fixed
Successful in school.
An Annotated Bibliography
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Marita's Bargain”. Chasing Success, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp. 3-13.
Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker from Ontario, Canada analyzes the reasons for why some people can achieve success and why others do not. Students are generally centralized in the topic of how success is achieved and how KIPP schools reinforce the students to acknowledge the act of persistence. KIPP schools train the students how to be better learners to therefore set them up for a road of success. Patterns and certain methods are used to enhance the young minds. Students are held in an excessive amount of school days from …show more content…
Dweck, a psychology graduate student from Yale University, uses animal experiment data from psychologist Martin Seligman from the university of Pennsylvania to show how some students give up when faced to difficulty, whereas others continue to learn and strive. The researchers observed how animals give up after repeated failures and as the result of the experiment, Dweck is able to compare these behaviors to those of students; Dweck wondered if students also give up when face to face with a difficult situation or continue to strive despite the difficulty of the situation. With this in mind, Dweck developed a theory in which there are two classes of learners, The helpless learner's mindset, which believe that intelligence is a fixed trait and only reaches a certain point. Versus the mastery-oriented learners, or learners with “Growth mindsets” which on the other hand, believe that intelligence can be shaped or molded through education and effort. The benefit of having a growth mindset within a student’s perspective is that they are in store for significant academic success rather than those fellow mates who have a fixed mindset. In similar fashion to Malcolm Gladwell’s study on students in KIPP schools, Dweck, along with Lisa Blackwell of Columbia University and Kali H. Trzesniewski of Stanford University monitored 373 students in jr high school to deduce how their mindsets will affect their math grades. The students were given mindset statements and were tested according to their beliefs to get the result of their grades. The final result confirmed how the students with growth mindset beliefs received superior test scores in comparison to those who held a fixed