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Beyond Student Mind-Sets: How Exposure to Growth Mind-Set Teachers and Classrooms Impacts Students

Fri, April 17, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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Decades of educational research have shown that students’ own beliefs about the malleability of intelligence or academic ability—their growth mindsets—have important implications for their academic motivation, performance, and learning. By contrast, relatively little research has examined how students are influenced by the growth mindsets of the people around them (such as their teachers) or by the growth mindset messages they are exposed to in classroom contexts. This session showcases three underexplored mindset variables that can shape student outcomes—(1) growth mindset classroom climates, (2) teachers’ growth mindsets, and (3) students’ perceptions of their teachers’ growth mindsets—and explores the mechanisms underlying their effects. Implications for classroom practices, intervention, and policy are discussed.

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