Class assignments may serve several purposes: They give students the opportunity to learn new skills, explore specific issues in more depth, and be creative in making links between concepts. An additional purpose may be to help develop specific personality or character attributes in the students. If you find that students are apprehensive about your course, or they have not been succeeding with recent assignments, how might you change your approach to increase your students' self-efficacy? How might you respond to students with an external locus of control who express feelings of powerlessness to improve their performance in class