From: BBC
Exam success makes children happy, argues Michael Gove
BBC:
In the speech, the minister is expected to refer to the work of the American cognitive scientist Daniel T Willingham whom he cites as one of his biggest influences.
Quoting from Mr Willingham’s book Why Students Don’t Like School Mr Gove says he agrees that students are motivated to learn if they enjoy “the pleasurable rush that comes from successful thought”.
Mr Gove is set to say this is what exam success provides: “There is no feeling of satisfaction as deep or sustained as knowing we have succeeded through hard work at a task which is the upper end, or just beyond, our normal or expected level of competence.
“Exams show those who have not mastered certain skills or absorbed specific knowledge what more they need to practise and which areas they need to work on,” Mr Gove will say.
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