Motivation Orientation and School Readiness in Children Served by Head Start
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of a thesis at the University of Miami. Embracing challenges and coping with setbacks broadly characterize a set of skills known as motivation orientation. Smiley and Dweck (1994) define two types of motivational orientations (MO): mastery motivated orientation (MMO) and performance
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