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Enhancing Students' Self-perceptions: The Impact of Programs and Teacher Feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Paul C. Burnett*
Affiliation:
Centre for Search and Graduate Training, Charles Start University, Australia
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(Research and Graduate Training), Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650, Australia. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article describes a professional and research journey that has focussed on developing and evaluating programs and strategies which am, to enhance upper primary school students' self-percepttons, including self-esteem self-concepts and self-talk. The journey started with the development and evaluation of an 8-session program to enhance children's global self-esteem (Burnett, 1983; Ritchie & Burnett, 1985) and continued until an investigation of how teacher feedback can be used to enhance academic self-concepts, specifically in mathematics and reading (Burnett, 1999, 2003).

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