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About the Other 3Rs
Project

Project Goals

Designing the Teacher Training

Implementing the Study

Illustrated Presentations

Project Results

Project Collaborators

Collaborator Biosketches

APA Staff for the project


Monitor Articles on The Other 3 R's
Responsibility: one of the other three Rs (March 03)

The other three Rs: part two, reasoning (April 03)

The other three Rs: part three, resilience (May 03)

It's more than reading, writing and 'rithmetic (Oct 03)

White House conference draws on psychologists' expertise (Sep 02)
A Research Study for Enhancing Teaching and Learning

Goal and Background
The compelling question among educators today is how to enhance teaching and student learning in order to increase academic achievement. Many solutions are being offered to respond to this question in schools throughout the nation. Committed to science-based answers, the American Psychological Association applied for and received a grant from the McDonnell Foundation to organize a collaborative to investigate the effect of learning the Other 3Rs on student academic achievement and life skills. The goal of the pilot project conducted with MCPS was to examine not only whether teaching the skills of reasoning, resilience and responsibility had an impact on student learning and efficacy, but on teacher self-efficacy as well.
Group that created the theoretical model of the Other 3 R's Project. Rear, L-R, Carol Dwyer, Robert Sternberg, Mary Walsh, Barry Zimmerman, Rena Subotnik, Roger Weissberg,
Front, L-R, Jeanine Cogan, Charlotte Danielson
Why the Other 3Rs?
Recent research points to the importance of life skills or character education in enhancing teaching and student learning. This focus rests on the notion that a student's success in academics is augmented by strong problem solving skills.

Experts have identified reasoning, resilience and responsibility as key problem solving skills that, when learned, can benefit student achievement and general life success strategies. The prevailing view among scientists is that teachers can teach these skills and students can learn them.



Updated 9.13.05

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