Monday, 26 March 2007

Are school tests on their way out?. BBC education correspondent Mike Baker explores the logic of the latest testing changes. [BBC News | UK News | Education | World Edition] 6:58:20 PM

The Effort Effect Guy Kawasaki writes: If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read The Effort Effect. This is an article about Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. It examines her thirty-year study of why some some people excel and others don't. [Hint: the answer is not "God-given talent."] The article postulates that people have two kinds of mindsets: growth or fixed. People with the growth mindset view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving. People with a fixed mindset believe that they are [base "]set[per thou] as either good or bad. The issue is that the good ones believe they don't have to work hard, and the bad ones believe that working hard won't change anything. [Emergic] 8:41:49 AM

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