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The Springer Human Exceptionality

The Culture and Context of Learning

By: Farideh Salili (Editor), Chi-yue Chiu (Editor), Ying-yi Hong (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 May 2001

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Ever since the advent of the intelligence test we have thought of exceptional achievement in terms of cognitive attributes. We have words and phrases like "genius," "above average intelligence," "average" and "mentally deficient" to describe different levels of cognitive ability. In the United States widespread use of intelligence tests followed the success of the in World War I, and for the next half-century Army Alpha and Beta Tests intelligence tests were the major measures used to predict school and vocational achievement. Learning was primarily studied in laboratories, and the behaviorist theories that were dominant largely dealt with changes in overt behavior. As a result there was relatively little influence of learning research on concepts involving cognition and intelligence. The transition from behaviorism to cognitive psychology that began in the 1940's and 50's came into full flower in the 1970's and 80's, and great progress was made in understanding learning, memory, and thinking. In the decades following World War I there had been many debates about the possible influence of environmental conditions on intelligence, but the cognitive abilities measured by intelligence tests were generally believed to be determined by heredity. The intelligence tests of cognitive abilities correlated substantially with academic performance; so their use in determining which students needed special help in school or which students were capable of university work was widely accepted. As cognitive psychology became dominant, it became apparent that although heredity was important, intelligence consisted of learnable abilities.

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The Culture and Context of Learning	p. 1
The Role of Learning Context and Motivation in the Education of Exceptional Students	p. 2
Psychological Mediators of Learning Vulnerabilities	p. 3
Organization and Overview of the Book	p. 4
Attribution Theory, Beliefs and Values: Current Status and Research	p. 5
Goal Orientation Theory: New Ideas and Recent Research	p. 8
Context of Learning and Classroom Instruction	p. 11
Attribution Theory/Beliefs and Values: Current Status and Research
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Theories of Motivation from an Attribution Perspective	p. 17
Intrapersonal Motivation from an Attributional	p. 18
Interpersonal Motivation from an Attributional	p. 23
Some Concluding Thoughts	p. 29
Inferences about Responsibility and Values: Implication for Academic Motivation	p. 31
African American Respondents	p. 34
Multi-Ethnic Respondents	p. 42
The Development of Achievement Values	p. 50
The Social Functions of Attributional Face Saving Tactics	p. 61
Perceived Social Consequences of Lack of Effort and Low Ability Accounts	p. 63
Communicating Lack of Effort and Low Ability to Teachers and Peers	p. 64
Why Portray Oneself as Low in Ability?	p. 66
Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Low Ability Accounts	p. 67
Failure Accounts to Teachers and Peers	p. 67
Self-Effacement and Honesty Facilitating Positive Relationships	p. 68
Failure Accounts Conveying Positive and Negative Sentiments	p. 70
Summary and Discussion	p. 72
Comparing Low Ability and Lack of Effort Accounts	p. 74
True Causes versus Untrue Accounts	p. 75
Declining Optimism in Ethnic Minority Students: The Role of Attributions and Self-Esteem	p. 79
Attributions	p. 82
Expectancies	p. 83
Two Accounts of Achievement in African American College Students	p. 84
Method	p. 88
Results	p. 90
Discussion	p. 95
Measures	p. 99
Chinese Students' and Teachers' Inferences of Effort and Ability	p. 105
Exertion of Effort is a Cultural Norm	p. 106
Beliefs in the Relationship Between Effort and Ability	p. 107
Students' Beliefs About Effort and Ability and Their Correlates	p. 110
Teacher's Beliefs About Effort and Ability	p. 113
Goal Orientation Theory: New Ideas and Recent Research
Cultural Diversity, Student Motivation and Achievement	p. 123
Cultural Diversity: Opportunity and Challenge	p. 124
Transforming School Culture as a Need and a Solution	p. 132
Goal Orientation and Self-Regulated Learning in the College Classroom: A Cross-Cultural Comparison	p. 149
Method	p. 153
Results and Discussion	p. 155
Contextual Influences on Motivation and Performance: An Examination of Achievement Goal Structures	p. 171
Achievement Goal Theory: An Overview	p. 172
Current Research: A Description of the Classroom Goal Processes Study (CGPS)	p. 184
Summary and Implications for Research and Practice	p. 195
Cross-Cultural Response to Failure: Considering Outcome Attributions with Different Goals	p. 203
Attributions Predict Affect, Cognition, and Motivation	p. 204
Performance Goals and Learning Goals	p. 205
When Might Effort Attributions Go with the Performance Goals?	p. 206
Motivational Patterns of Asian Students	p. 206
The Present Research	p. 208
A Cross-Cultural Study of Korean and U.S. Students	p. 209
Studies of Effort-Orientation Within Learning and Performance Goal	p. 210
A Preliminary Study of Effort (and Ability) Attributions for Individual Versus Group Outcomes	p. 211
A Further Study of Effort (and Ability) Attributions for Individual Versus Group Outcomes	p. 212
Cross-Cultural Difference in Achievement Motivation--Goals, Attributions, and Meaning Systems	p. 214
A Meaning-System Approach can Illuminate Cross-Cultural Differences and Universals	p. 215
Do Ability Attributions have Invariant Linkages?	p. 216
The Influence of Culture and Context on Students' Motivational Orientation and Performance	p. 221
Theoretical Background	p. 222
Overview of the Present Study	p. 227
Method	p. 227
Results	p. 228
Goals and Motivation of Chinese Students--Testing the Adaptive Learning Model	p. 249
Background	p. 249
Instrument	p. 251
Participants and Procedures	p. 252
Results and Discussion	p. 253
Context of Learning and Classroom Instruction
Classroom Context Effects on Young Children's Motivation	p. 273
Conceptualizing Classroom Contexts	p. 275
Classroom Context Effects on Children's Motivation	p. 277
Teaching Across Cultures	p. 293
Teaching and the Ladder of Abstraction	p. 293
Significance of Cultural and Motivation Variables on Students' Attitudes Towards Group Work	p. 309
Method	p. 313
Results	p. 316
Research on Classroom Instruction and Its Effects--Shortcomings, Dead Ends, and Future Perspectives	p. 335
Overview	p. 335
Research on Classroom Instruction and Its Effects--A Dilemma	p. 336
The Process-Product Paradigm of Teacher Effectiveness	p. 336
Critique of the Process-Product Approach	p. 337
Defensive Reactions	p. 338
The Classroom Environment Study: An Offensive Reaction	p. 339
Instruction as a Condition and as a Consequence	p. 340
Interaction of Didactic Activities and Diagnostic Competence	p. 341
Multicriterial Effectiveness of Classroom Instruction	p. 343
Author Index	p. 347
Subject Index	p. 357
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