This was the reason given to me by a fifth grade teacher as to why I, a student teacher at the time, shouldn’t give extra help to a child who was working hard to improve her reading. Once my shock at ...

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you’d need a heart of stone not to scoff at a certain Harvard Crimson headline: “Harvard Professors Cancel Classes as Students Feel Blue After Trump Win.” Courses like ...

This is the first in a two-part series from Albert Bandura, a pioneer in the field of social cognitive theory and the most cited living psychologist in the world. The David Starr Jordan Professor ...

This preliminary research examined the effectiveness of a classroom counseling intervention on student self-efficacy development. Five first-grade classrooms in a rural school with high rates of ...

Teens who feel confident in managing the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with puberty report fewer symptoms ...

There’s a reason the words “believe in yourself” are plastered on classroom signs and cross-stitched on throw pillows. Your sense of self-efficacy, or the belief that you can accomplish what you set ...