EJ366495 PS515559
Title: Success and Failure on Classroom Tasks: Adaptive Learning and
Classroom Teaching.Author(s): Rohrkemper, Mary; Corno, Lyn
Source: Elementary School Journal, v88 n3 p297-312 Jan 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Notes: Thematic Issue: Schoolwork and Academic Tasks.
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN1988
Target Audience: Researchers; Practitioners
Argues that
classroom learning inevitably requires adaptive responses by students,
and that teachers should deliberately promote the development of
students' adaptive learning within a supportive classroom environment
by emphasizing the constructive benefits of functional failure and
the limited benefits of uninformative success. (SKC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Class Activities; *Classroom
Environment; Developmental Tasks; Elementary Education; *Elementary
School Students; *Failure; Learning Activities; Student Attitudes;
*Success; Teacher Attitudes; *Teaching Methods
Identifiers: *Adaptive Learning
