He researched mastery teaching methodologies.
Although theory and examples often focus on elite athletic performance, research on mastery-avoidance in such samples is sparse, and even less is known about what these goals mean to athletes.
In swimmers, the investigators say, the research suggests that mastery of the highly technical swimming stroke is the most important factor in performance and endurance.
The intricacies of war suit Faulks's love of research and his mastery of it – how to layer and find ornament in it, what German tanks to mention, what level of ignorance to assume on the part of his reader.
Work avoidance goals have been relatively neglected in the literature with most research focusing on mastery and performance goals.
Students aspire to be clinicians; the notion of a good doctor who is also a researcher emerges in the Clinical Years, and with mastery of research skills.
Character research was inseparable from mastery of the discipline.
"And if everyone else at the table are veggies, don't order something with a head on it," adds Sue Scott, research director at RDI. Mastery of basic table etiquette is advisable to convey your intelligent professionalism, but don't let food and tools distract you.
However, mastery goal research indicates that doing this will help to strengthen mastery goals and will not promote performance goals (Brophy, 2010).
Some research has suggested that mastery of phonology and syntax appears to follow the same course of development as it does in neurotypical children, albeit accomplished at a slower rate in a proportion of individuals [Tager-Flusberg, 1981 ].
