Design Challenge Winner PERC: Assessing Growth Mindset
InspireBy Tenelle Porter, University of California, Davis Visualize something you’ve always been pretty good at–maybe it’s a skill or subject in school that came easily to you, something that made you think “I’m a natural!” Now, think about something you really struggled with but eventually learned. Maybe it’s playing an instrument, or solving quadratic equations — something that took effort, practice, and lots of failure, but that eventually you got. Research tells us that both of these experiences probably informed your “theories” about how abilities work. One belief you may have developed is that abilities are fixed; this view says that we come into the world good at some things and bad at others and we stay that […]
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