keannu
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I can't understand the underlined. Does it mean even underachievers can be relieved just to know their skill level? Is it because understanding your skill level comes before its being high or low according to his argument?
st214
ex)Educational psychologist Dian Horgan raises the interesting point that a better understanding of one's skill level is not necessarily the result of greater skill. Instead, the causation can run in the other direction: Realistically understanding your skill level might help you improve by enabling you to adjust your expectations, properly gauge feedback, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and so on. If you are overconfident in your ability, you may also be less motivated to improve it. After all, you "know" that you are already good, so you don't need to practice more. "These considerations should give pause to supporters of increasing children's self-esteem as a comfort for educational underachievement."
st214
ex)Educational psychologist Dian Horgan raises the interesting point that a better understanding of one's skill level is not necessarily the result of greater skill. Instead, the causation can run in the other direction: Realistically understanding your skill level might help you improve by enabling you to adjust your expectations, properly gauge feedback, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and so on. If you are overconfident in your ability, you may also be less motivated to improve it. After all, you "know" that you are already good, so you don't need to practice more. "These considerations should give pause to supporters of increasing children's self-esteem as a comfort for educational underachievement."
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