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Developing A Multi-Dimensional Measure Of Growth Mindset For School Improvement, Thomas Hartka
Developing A Multi-Dimensional Measure Of Growth Mindset For School Improvement, Thomas Hartka
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
The goal of the present study was to create a multi-dimensional growth mindset (MGM) measure. The purpose of the measure was to serve as an indicator of improvement for a team of 6th grade Math teachers in a local Middle School. These teachers noted that while their students were showing stronger self-reported growth mindset beliefs following interventions, they were not consistently displaying improvement in growth mindset behaviors. Following deeper discussions with this team of teachers and review of the growth mindset literature, six dimensions of growth mindset were identified: (1) intelligence belief, (2) effort, (3) persistence, (4) mistakes, (5) …