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Description In the case “Cheerleading Tryouts,” Tina is trying out for the school’s varsity cheerleading team and finds her self to encounter many problems in the process. Tina has the wrong things in her mind when she is going through the tryouts. She has performance goals rather than mastery goals and therefore is only trying out because she wants to stay popular. She has many different attributions to her failure but she doesn’t attribute any of them to her self. She blames the coach for her not making the varsity team because the coach got judges from a college to come in and they weren’t familiar faces who would score her easily. She also blames the coach for adding new requirements that she couldn’t do. Lastly she blames the coach for not announcing the new requirements and therefore she didn’t have time to learn them. She has a high self-efficacy because of her misconceptions from her past experiences. She thought because she had the coach as her algebra teacher that she would have an advantage over some of the other girls trying out. Tina was also the junior varsity cheerleading captain for the past two years so she thought she would surely make the team since she had a good position on the team. She got another misconception from the coach when she offered to help the new girls to help teach them cheers, Mrs. Roche said she’d keep her in mind for helping them; this caused her to think that she would make it and could teach the girls who didn’t know what they were doing some cheers. Tina never attributed her failure to her own effort or internal factors. She had plenty of opportunities to realize that there were going to be new skills required of each person trying out she was just oblivious to all of them.
Approximate Word count = 1179
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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