Prior Achievement Measure

Mindset in Context: Developing New Methodologies to Study Mindset in Interview Data

“…Learning orientations are described as either "mastery orientation" or "performance orientation" [10]. Mindset has come to umbrella even further ideas [1], but in this paper we focus on the central topics of beliefs and learning orientations. We will use the term growth mindset interchangeably with incremental theory and performance orientation.…”

“…For coding, we found student story-telling around challenges and then categorized students' responses according to Dweck and colleagues' descriptions of what constitutes mastery or performance-oriented approaches. For masteryoriented approaches, we coded whether students described effort or hard work [1], "studying to learn, not just ace the test" [16], and/or changing their strategies [9]. For performance-oriented approaches, we coded whether students described assessing their ability and giving up if it was low [9].…”

“…Yeager, Dweck, and colleagues recently described that, "When students have a fixed mindset, they believe that their intelligence is something that is finite and unchangeable...when students have more of a growth mindset, they believe that intelligence can be developed" [1]. Interventions aimed at student mindset have had remarkable success on middle school math grades and promising results with college persistence [1,2]. Yet, there is limited work on mindset in the context of introductory college STEM experiences.…”