Posts in positive psychology
More than Grades: Seeing your Student's Character Strengths

It’s about that time in the semester that parents anxiously await grade updates from their college students. Enough of the semester has passed to produce more than a few graded assignments. While professors are, in general, notoriously behind in grading and entering grades into Learning Management Systems, by mid-term, a student should have enough information to make an educated estimate about their progress in a course. Of course, for some students and for some courses, this is encouraging news. For other students and for other courses, the news can be equally discouraging.

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