Brenden is a student in Mrs. O'Donnell's high school algebra ...

[james0929]

Brenden is a student in Mrs. O'Donnell's high school algebra class. He barely passed math last year and knows he won't be able to succeed in algebra. He says he doesn't have the brains to do math no matter how much he works at it. The teacher offers to help him after school, but Brenden says it won't help. He's tried tutors before. Brenden's beliefs about himself illustrate:
 
  a. controllable causes of failure.
  b. an incremental view of intelligence.
  c. an unstable view of ability.
  d. learned helplessness.

Question 2

Mr. Chen is beginning his second year of teaching sixth grade in a low-income area. He has always been driven by goals and is trying to help his students learn to set and achieve goals, but his students didn't respond well to his performance goal orientation last year. Mr. Chen recently revisited his educational psychology text from college and read the chapter about motivation. Now he wants to change the goal orientation for his teaching and help his students work toward mastery goals. What should he do to achieve this goal?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[ynlevi]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

Suggested Response: Mr. Chen is making an important and significant philosophical change.
 The point of a mastery goal is to improve and learn, not to receive a reward or please others