Firmin‚ M.‚ Hwang‚ C.‚ Copella‚ M.‚ & Clark‚ S. (2004). Learned Helplessness: The Effect of Failure on Test-Taking. Education‚ 124(4)‚ 688 – 693. Purpose Firmin‚ Hwang‚ Copella and Clark’s research study focuses on testing the strength of the student against his or her “learned helplessness.” This phenomenon includes the following: Contingency‚ which addresses the uncontrollability or stability of the situation‚ and Cognition refers to the various attributes that individuals display in
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semester in African American Literature we have read and analyzed many different literary works from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates Jr. We have discussed several of them in class either as a whole or in groups. I thoroughly enjoyed gaining useful knowledge about my own culture and heritage. This course also furthered my knowledge of the African American Experience. A few literary works stood out to me in particular; I’ve Been to The Mountaintop by Martin Luther
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In my second year of college there are a number of things I have learned about myself. I have learned about my likes and dislikes as well as my strength and weaknesses. I have had to make goals and start planning my future. Through out planning‚ my choices have been influenced by people and issues. I have had to take in numerous considerations in making my decisions. I have chosen a career field‚ a major‚ and laid out a plan for my future in visual communications. My first two years of college
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this proficiency were the most meaningful to me because I was able to apply the skills learned in counseling classes and use them during group and individual sessions. In addition to this‚ I had the opportunity to use the skills I have learned in my graduate studies to counsel students‚ as well as provide other services to teachers and parents. Perhaps the most relevant activities in this proficiency were the counseling sessions. I had no idea how much skill goes into counseling students
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place to find yourself. I am only a month into my college tenure and I have already begun to learn more about myself here than I had in my 18 years prior. I have learned so much through Carolyn Kalil’s True Colors Personality Quiz‚ The Learning Styles Inventory and Learning Styles Descriptions by Solomon and Felder‚ and The Reading/Learning Process in Chapter One of A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings by Stephen Wilhoit. The True Colors Personality Quiz has taught me that I am more adventurous and
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Narrate an important/ unusual incident of your life‚ when you had to face a very demanding/ challenging situation. How did you overcome the situation? What lessons did you learn from this incident? In October 1989‚ I was entrusted with a long range foot patrol with a team of twenty fully geared soldiers to the extreme border positions in Northern Kashmir. With 20 kilos of backpack involving survival rations‚ weapons‚ polar gear all to be deftly balanced on the treacherous Himalayan Mountains –
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Learned organizations are organizations that are skilled at creating‚ acquiring‚ and transferring knowledge and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insight. In my opinion all organization are learned organizations. In order to stay relevant to consumers and customers‚ organizations have to adapt to changes that are taking place around you and your organization‚ a microenvironment. The Kentucky Air Guard is absolutely a learned organizations. There are 5 different groups that make
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Self Reflection I feel like I have been challenged in the writing area. I am learning new skills and being pushed as a writer. For example I have learned how to properly insert quotes and cite them in essays. This semester has not been hard for me but it has also not been easy. I feel this has been very good and I’m learning at a good pace and level. I am very satisfied with my experiences in this class as a writer. I have learned a lot including the structure of how essays and papers should
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My experienced in the EDM 310 has been great. I can honestly say that it is one of the few classes that I have really enjoyed throughout the various courses I have taken. When I signed up for this class in the fall of last year I really didn’t know what to expect from this class I just knew that it was a class that I was required to take. There are a few reasons as to why I have enjoyed this class. I enjoyed this class because I did not have to buy a textbook or worry about a textbook in general
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Upon coming to Augustana I was very excited to join the Cheerleading squad. However‚ I was also very nervous because I was informed that there would be tryouts. The tryouts were held on the first weekend of college and it was a very exhausting day. But I was delighted to find out just two days later that I had made it! Over the past four weeks that I have been involved in the practices I have learned so much and met many new friends. The three main things that I have learned since starting cheer are
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