definition
He defines deliberate practice as strategic self-assessment: a learner identifies weaknesses, tests a plan, and changes that plan if it fails.
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Self Assessment
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diagnosis
Jiang uses Dunning-Kruger to argue that poor self-assessment is a core educational problem: the weakest performers may lack the capacity to recognize their own weakness.
diagnosis
Jiang says the hardest thing for students to learn is accurate self-assessment.
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Jiang says in Chinese education what matters is not absolute test performance but relative performance against peers, so classroom proximity is part of how students self-assess and compete.
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"Okay? So those who have a growth mindset, if they fail, they try harder. Those who have a fixed mindset, if they fail, they..."
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"...well. Okay? So this is the idea of self -reflection or self -assessment. Constantly thinking about how you are as a student and figure..."
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"And then after they took the IQ test, they asked each student, how do you think you did on the IQ test? Do you..."
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"...Right? We have self -control. We have resilience. And we have self -assessment. And so as educators, as schools, what we can do is..."
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"...space enough autonomy to learn the skills of self -reflection and self -assessment now what's really interesting about this time is that because of..."
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"My wife, who did go for the Chinese school system, she explains there are two good reasons. The first reason is that what matters..."
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"...don't have much confidence in others. Okay? And the idea of self -assessment, right? Looking inward. Well, if you're a poor child who lives..."
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Jiang starts from a harsh premise: students do not mainly fail because they lack content.
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Jiang starts with what looks like praise for China's move online during COVID.
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