Students' beliefs and goals can powerfully influence their learning success. Those who believe intelligence is a fixed entity (entity theorists) tend to emphasize 'performance goals,' leaving them vulnerable to negative feedback and likely to disengage from challenging learning opportunities. In contrast, students who believe intelligence is malleable (incremental theorists) tend to emphasize '...

1 Introduction It is a platitude that beliefs can be correct or incorrect. The most obvious candidate for belief's correctness condition is truth. This suggests that the following principle holds: (1) For any p: the belief that p is correct if and only if it is true that p Krister Bykvist and Anandi Hattiangadi (hereafter, B&H) argue that (1) might not be platitudinous when 'correct' 'is interp...

Should a materialist believe in qualia? Yes and no. 'Qual ia ' is a name for the occupants of a certain functional role that is spelled out in our tacitly known folk psychology. If materialism is true, there are no perfect occupants of the role, and hence no perfect deservers of the name. But in all probability there are imperfect occupants of the role, imperfect deservers of the name. Good eno...

This paper helps to improve the understanding of advanced object-oriented software composition techniques Advanced software composition has become the locus of attention of current research on software engineering and execution platforms. The investments in component-based software development and aspect-oriented software development are witnesses of this trend. We believe current research on a...

ACTUALIZING SOCIAL JUSTICE: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL MAY 2010 CAMILLE LEE, B.S., UNIVERSITY OF UTAH M.Ed., WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by Professor Pat Griffin Researchers and k-12 practitioners have been struggling with inequity and diversity issues for the past four decades. These struggles have produced multiple philos...