文档介绍：Creating A Positive Work Ethic in Civil Engineering Students: A Case for Attribution Theory and Scaffolding
Thomas R. Dion and Kevin C. Bower The Citadel, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Charleston, SC 29409,
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Abstract
Influencing a student’s mindset can be challenging especially when students have had negative learning experiences. How a student rationalizes ess or failure is called “attribution theory”. Their attribution, or explanation, centers on either an external or internal force causing their performance. As an example of external attribution, a student who thinks he or she has a poor teacher and a poorly written textbook can use those thoughts to rationalize the 62% test grade they received. If on the other hand, a test indicates a 95% achievement level, then the student may feel internally that superior intellect and intelligence played a part. Once an attribution has been asserted, it reflects the mindset of the student until another attribution is asserted. One means of trying to improve average and less than average student performance, is to intervene in this cycle where students want to change their mindset. The desired focus of a student’s rationalization should be ‘effort drive,’ because, that is the only condition a student can control.
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