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“It's ok — Not everyone can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students
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The authors found that instructors holding an entity (fixed) theory of math intelligence more readily judged students to have low ability than those holding an incremental (malleable) theory, and found that those holding entity theory were more likely to both comfort students for low math ability and use "kind" strategies unlikely to promote engagement with the field (e.g., assigning less homework).About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 473 citations till now.read more
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Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
David S. Yeager,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that students who believe that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed) tend to show higher achievement across challenging school transitions and greater course completion rates in challenging math courses.
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Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women's representation in mathematics.
TL;DR: Interestingly, the message that math ability could be acquired protected women from negative stereotypes, allowing them to maintain a high sense of belonging in math and the intention to pursue math in the future.
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STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes
TL;DR: This article found that faculty mindset beliefs predicted student achievement and motivation above and beyond any other faculty characteristic, including their gender, race/ethnicity, age, teaching experience, or tenure status.
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The Origins of Children's Growth and Fixed Mindsets: New Research and a New Proposal.
Kyla Haimovitz,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: A new perspective is presented on why this is the case, and research on adult practices that do instill growth mindsets are reviewed, concluding that a sustained focus on the process of learning is critical.
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What Predicts Children’s Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mind-Sets? Not Their Parents’ Views of Intelligence but Their Parents’ Views of Failure
Kyla Haimovitz,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that children can accurately perceive their parents' failure mind-sets but not their parents’ intelligence mindsets, and that children’s perceptions of their parents failure mindset also predicted their own intelligence mind-set.
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Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions
Leona S. Aiken,Stephen G. West +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of predictor scaling on the coefficients of regression equations are investigated. But, they focus mainly on the effect of predictors scaling on coefficients of regressions.
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A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality
Carol S. Dweck,Ellen L. Leggett +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a research-based model that accounts for these patterns in terms of underlying psychological processes, and place the model in its broadest context and examine its implications for our understanding of motivational and personality processes.
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Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
TL;DR: Theories of intelligence create high and low effort as mentioned in this paper... Theories and goals predict Self-Esteem Loss and Depressive Reactions, and why confidence and success are not enough.
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Jennifer Sue Bond,Daniel C Humphrey,Karen L Paton,Amy M Hightower,Larry Suter,Jean M Johnson,Melissa Pollak,John E Jankowski,Rolf F Lehming,Lawrence M Rausch,Jon D Miller +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the following categories: elementary and secondary science and mathematics education, higher education in science and engineering, academic research and development, public attitudes and public understanding.