Kali Trzesniewski

Maximizing a child's opportunity to learn and succeed academically requires confronting at least two types of challenges. First, one must determine which strategies best foster learning. Second, one must determine how best to motivate students to take advantage of those strategies. This project will focus on whether a belief that one can improve one's intelligence leads students to use self-regulated learning strategies more often and to use those strategies in more effective ways. The resea...