When Helping Hurts: Homework Support and Learned Helplessness

Orkin, May and Wolf in Reading Psychology (2017): the study of how parental homework help relates to helpless behaviors in struggling readers — and why help that takes over can backfire, while support that protects a child’s sense of competence does not.

Full citation in Maryanne Wolf’s published CV.

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