The MINDSET
SCHOLARS BLOG has a collection of articles on growth mindset, achievement gap,
belonging, college persistence, and other topics. The two recent posts are particularly worth
exploring. The most
recent post comments on the Science Magazine paper, “Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and
influence children’s interests”. The
authors demonstrate that “six-year-old girls are less likely than boys their
age to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart.” This
results in avoidance of specific activities that are thought to be meant for
“very smart” people and might be a culprit for gender achievement gap in STEM.
The full text of this fascinating paper is available here.
The second
post, by Carol Dweck, summarizes growth mindset research, including her own
results, as well as the work of others, and meta-analysis of the existing experimental
studies. She comments on the efforts to re-analyze existing data, challenges
and opportunities of implementation of growth mindset concepts in the
classroom, and growth mindset misconceptions among teachers.
There are several other growth mindset – related blogs (all worth exploring):
