Growth Mindset in Education

Policy

Policy implementation at all levels

Rattan, A., Savani, K., Chugh, D., & Dweck, C. S. (2015). Leveraging Mindsets to Promote Academic Achievement. Perspectives on Psychological Science,10(6), 721-726.

Teaching Growth Mindset

Inquiry lessons can promote growth mindset

O'Brien, M., Makar, K., Fielding-Wells, J., & Hillman, J. (2015). How Inquiry Pedagogy Enables Teachers to Facilitate Growth Mindsets in Mathematics Classrooms. Retrieved June 12, 2018.

Teachers should be supported when teaching mindset

Menanix, S. (2015). Teaching for a Growth Mindset: How Contexts and Professional Identity Shift Decision-Making. 116.

Strategies and reflective collaboration promote growth mindset

Powers, M. (2015). Growth Mindset Intervention at the Community College Level: A Multiple Methods Examination of the Effects on Faculty and Students. 208.

Academic Achievement

Mindset intervention improves academic underachievement

Paunesku, D., Walton, G., Romero, C., Smith, E., Yeager, D., & Dweck, C. (2015). Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement. Psychological Science, 26(6), 784-793.

Self-administered psychological intervention improves academic achievement

Yeager, David S., Romero, Carissa, Paunesku, Dave, Hulleman, Christopher S., Schneider, Barbara, Hinojosa, Cintia, . . . Dweck, Carol S. (2016). Using Design Thinking to Improve Psychological Interventions: The Case of the Growth Mindset during the Transition to High School. Journal of Educational Psychology, 108(3), 374-391.

Positive correlation between grit and academic achievement

Barrington, M., Kouzekanani, Kamiar, Edwards, Dessynie, Etheridge, Charles, & Lucido, Frank. (2017). Assessing the Link between Grit and Academic Achievement in Reading, Mathematics, and Writing among 4th Graders: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Inquiry, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.

Intrinsic motivation increases with growth mindset

Ng, B. (2018). The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset and Intrinsic Motivation. Brain Sciences, 8(2), .

Improved mindset score but not GPA

Brougham, L., & Kashubeck-West, S. (2017). Impact of a Growth Mindset Intervention on Academic Performance of Students at Two Urban High Schools. Professional School Counseling, 21(1), Professional School Counseling, 2017, Vol.21(1).

Gap in the Literature

There is a need to study growth mindset in the Chemistry classrooms and how to integrate growth mindset with the newest science standards and teaching models, including the Next Generation Science Standards, 5E learning cycle, and 3-course model.