CHAPTER 5: Traditional grading demotivates and disempowers Interview students. Are they motivated to achieve success or to avoid failure? What specific actions, policies, or words by teachers cause students to experience one type of motivation instead of the other? Do you think of your tasks at work as performance or mastery goals? What affects how you define the goal? How does this affect how you pursue the task? In what ways do schools and classrooms end a message of competition for achievement? How does your school’s treatment of awards and honors promote or undermine a growth or fixed mindset? Post your answer to the questions above in the comment section here by clicking "Enter you comment" > choose "name/URL" in the drop down menu and add your name before typing your comment and clicking publish . Comment on two peers' posts by clicking "reply" > choose "name/URL" in the drop down menu underneath their posts and add your n...