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A compliment sandwich, [1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [2] Praise of the addressee. Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person.
Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals. Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor's degrees represent academic achievement. Academic achievement is commonly measured through ...
Positive education is an approach to education that draws on positive psychology 's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to promote learning. Unlike traditional school approaches, positive schooling teachers use techniques that focus on the well-being of individual students. [1] Teachers use methods such as developing ...
Reinhard Pekrun (born 1952, Braunschweig, Germany [1]) is a psychological scientist and educational researcher best known for his research on achievement emotions.He is a professor at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, [2] and a professorial fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Sydney.
Educational assessment. Educational assessment or educational evaluation[1] is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. [2] Assessment data can be obtained by examining student work directly to assess the achievement ...
Summative assessment, summative evaluation, or assessment of learning[1] is the assessment of participants in an educational program. Summative assessments are designed both to assess the effectiveness of the program and the learning of the participants. This contrasts with formative assessment which summarizes the participants' development at ...
Report card. A report card, or just report in British English – sometimes called a progress report or achievement report – communicates a student 's performance academically. In most places, the report card is issued by the school to the student or the student's parents once to four times yearly. A typical report card uses a grading scale ...
The Dunning–Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. [2][3][4] This is often seen as a cognitive bias, i.e. as a systematic tendency to engage in erroneous forms of thinking and judging. [5][6][7] In the case of the Dunning–Kruger effect, this ...