Students' ability to set goals is linked to higher grades, lower college-dropout rates and greater well-being in adulthood. A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology even showed that college students who wrote down their goals and the steps they would take to achieve them improved their grades and earned more credits than their fellow
Students' ability to set goals is linked to higher grades, lower college-dropout rates and greater well-being in adulthood. A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology even showed that college students who wrote down their goals and the steps they would take to achieve them improved their grades and earned more credits than their fellow students. Yet a majority of U.S. students lack faith in their ability to reach their goals. Read about how teachers at Bruce Junior High in East Texas help students like 13-year-old Jackson Sikes, who was having trouble on math tests, improve their scores- one small step at a time.
Wall Street Journal, 3/9/2011
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