2020: Student Success and the Public Good
Presentation Title
Growth Mindset Interventions and Girls’ Beliefs on the Nature of Intelligence
Keywords
self-perception; girls; STEM education
Description
This presentation discusses a research project exploring the impact of a one-hour session on growth mindset during two offerings of a three-day Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) summer camp for middle-school girls. One hundred and two girls in grades 5-7 participated in hands-on activities provided by faculty members and graduate students from four colleges at K-State: Agriculture; Arts and Sciences; Engineering and Veterinary Medicine. A quasi-experimental design was used to measure the impact of the growth mindset intervention on girls' beliefs about the nature of intelligence in pre- and post-surveys. On average, participants rejected statements suggesting that intelligence is innate and their belief that intelligence can grow increased according to their responses in the pre- and post-surveys. This increase in beliefs that reflect a growth mindset was significantly greater for those girls who participated in the growth mindset intervention (treatment) than for those who did not (control).
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Growth Mindset Interventions and Girls’ Beliefs on the Nature of Intelligence
This presentation discusses a research project exploring the impact of a one-hour session on growth mindset during two offerings of a three-day Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) summer camp for middle-school girls. One hundred and two girls in grades 5-7 participated in hands-on activities provided by faculty members and graduate students from four colleges at K-State: Agriculture; Arts and Sciences; Engineering and Veterinary Medicine. A quasi-experimental design was used to measure the impact of the growth mindset intervention on girls' beliefs about the nature of intelligence in pre- and post-surveys. On average, participants rejected statements suggesting that intelligence is innate and their belief that intelligence can grow increased according to their responses in the pre- and post-surveys. This increase in beliefs that reflect a growth mindset was significantly greater for those girls who participated in the growth mindset intervention (treatment) than for those who did not (control).
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