The role of praise and self-efficacy.

• What are positive effects of praise?

  It’s a reward. It makes someone feel good so behaviour is repeated.
• Why should effort be praised rather than performance? 


  Praising effort enables control. Praising performance is demotivating.
• What is self-efficacy? 


  Understanding your own abilities. Self efficacy increases or decreases future success.
• How does self efficacy affect motivation?

  Greater effort, persist longer, greater task performance and more resilience if higher self-efficacy.
• What is a negative evaluation of this?

  Praise destroys internal motivation.

  Praise can have opposite effect: Less interested if previously rewarded.
• What is a positive evaluation of this?

  Practical application.

  Students criticised for effort performed better on a test than those previously praised (DWECK)