Applied educational practice and research development of 'goals of best practice' (GsBP): philosophical inquiries and conceptual analysis for consideration.

ABSTRACT: In educational settings, the notion of 'achieving optimal best' in a subject matter (e.g., an elementary school student's achievement in her Year 6 Science project) is relevant for educators to consider. Optimal best, or optimal functioning, reflects the proactivity, positivity, and motivation of a person. How does a student achieve optimal best in Calculus? Our extensive research of optimal best has recognized the potency of the process of human optimization, which may operate to explain a person's successful experience and achievement of optimal best. Recently, researchers have considered another theoretical concept, which is termed as 'goals of best practice' (i.e., abbreviated as 'GsBP'). Goals of best practice, in brief, are personal goals that a person may construct and set fo

SUBMITTER: Phan HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198334 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature