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Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn
By Carol S. Dweck
This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research
is showing that our brains change constantly with learning and
experience and that this takes place throughout our lives.
Does this have implications for students' motivation and
learning? It certainly does. In my research in collaboration with
my graduate students, we have shown that what students believe
about their brains — whether they see their intelligence as
something that's fixed or something that can grow and change
— has profound effects on their motivation, learning, and
school achievement (Dweck, 2006). These different beliefs, or
mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which
students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks,
and one in which students relish challenges and are resilient in
the face of setbacks.
How do these mindsets work? How are the mindsets
communicated to students? And, most important, can they be
changed? As we answer these questions, you will understand
why so many students do not achieve to their potential, why so
many bright students stop working when school becomes
challenging, and why stereotypes have such profound effects on
students' achievement. You will also learn how praise can have
a negative effect on students' mindsets, harming their
motivation to learn.
Mindsets and Achievement
Many students believe that intelligence is fixed, that each
person has a certain amount and that's that. We call this a fixed
mindset, and, as you will see, students with this mindset worry
about how much of this fixed intelligence they possess. A fixed
mindset makes challenges threatening for students (because they
believe that their fixed ability may not be up to the task) and it
makes mistakes and failures demoralizing (because they believe
that such setbacks reflect badly on their level of fixed
intelligence).
It is the belief that intelligence can be developed that opens
students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and
constructive, determined reactions to setbacks.
Other students believe that intelligence is something that can be
cultivated through effort and education. They don't necessarily
believe that everyone has the same abilities or that anyone can
be as smart as Einstein, but they do believe that everyone can
improve their abilities. And they understand that even Einstein
wasn't Einstein until he put in years of focused hard work. In
short, students with this growth mindset believe that
intelligence is a potential that can be realized through learning.
As a result, confronting challenges, profiting from mistakes,
and persevering in the face of setbacks become ways of getting
smarter.
To understand the different worlds these mindsets create, we
followed several hundred students across a difficult school
transition — the transition to seventh grade. This is when the
academic work often gets much harder, the grading gets stricter,
and the school environment gets less personalized with students
moving from class to class. As the students entered seventh
grade, we measured their mindsets (along with a number of
other things) and then we monitored their grades over the next
two years.
The first thing we found was that students with different
mindsets cared about different things in school. Those with a
growth mindset were much more interested in learning than in
just looking smart in school. This was not the case for students
with a fixed mindset. In fact, in many of our studies with
students from preschool age to college age, we find that
students with a fixed mindset care so much about how smart
they will appear that they often reject learning opportunities —
even ones that are critical to their success (Cimpian, et al.,
2007; Hong, et al., 1999; Nussbaum and Dweck, 2008;
Mangels, et al., 2006).
Next, we found that students with the two mindsets had
radically different beliefs about effort. Those with a growth
mindset had a very straightforward (and correct) idea of effort
— the idea that the harder you work, the more your ability will
grow and that even geniuses have had to work hard for their
accomplishments. In contrast, the students with the fixed
mindset believed that if you worked hard it meant that you
didn't have ability, and that things would just come naturally to
you if you did. This means that every time something is hard for
them and requires effort, it's both a threat and a bind. If they
work hard at it that means that they aren't good at it, but if they
don't work hard they won't do well. Clearly, since just about
every worthwhile pursuit involves effort over a long period of
time, this is a potentially crippling belief, not only in school but
also in life.
Students with different mindsets also had very different
reactions to setbacks. Those with growth mindsets reported that,
after a setback in school, they would simply study more or
study differently the next time. But those with fixed mindsets
were more likely to say that they would feel dumb,
study less the next time, and seriously consider cheating. If you
feel dumb — permanently dumb — in an academic area, there is
no good way to bounce back and be successful in the future. In
a growth mindset, however, you can make a plan of positive
action that can remedy a deficiency. (Hong. et al., 1999;
Nussbaum and Dweck, 2008; Heyman, et al., 1992)
Finally, when we looked at the math grades they went on to
earn, we found that the students with a growth mindset had
pulled ahead. Although both groups had started seventh grade
with equivalent achievement test scores, a growth mindset
quickly propelled students ahead of their fixed-mindset peers,
and this gap only increased over the two years of the study.
In short, the belief that intelligence is fixed dampened students'
motivation to learn, made them afraid of effort, and made them
want to quit after a setback. This is why so many bright students
stop working when school becomes hard. Many bright students
find grade school easy and coast to success early on. But later
on, when they are challenged, they struggle. They don't want to
make mistakes and feel dumb — and, most of all, they don't
want to work hard and feel dumb. So they simply retire.
It is the belief that intelligence can be developed that opens
students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and
constructive, determined reactions to setbacks.
How Do Students Learn These Mindsets?
In the 1990s, parents and schools decided that the most
important thing for kids to have was self-esteem. If children felt
good about themselves, people believed, they would be set for
life. In some quarters, self-esteem in math seemed to become
more important than knowing math, and self-esteem in English
seemed to become more important than reading and writing. But
the biggest mistake was the belief that you could simply hand
children self-esteem by telling them how smart and talented
they are. Even though this is such an intuitively appealing idea,
and even though it was exceedingly well-intentioned, I believe
it has had disastrous effects.
In the 1990s, we took a poll among parents and found that
almost 85 percent endorsed the notion that it was necessary to
praise their children's abilities to give them confidence and help
them achieve. Their children are now in the workforce and we
are told that young workers cannot last through the day without
being propped up by praise, rewards, and recognition. Coaches
are asking me where all the coachable athletes have gone.
Parents ask me why their children won't work hard in school.
Could all of this come from well-meant praise? Well, we were
suspicious of the praise movement at the time. We had already
seen in our research that it was the most vulnerable children
who were already obsessed with their intelligence and
chronically worried about how smart they were. What if
praising intelligence made all children concerned about their
intelligence? This kind of praise might tell them that having
high intelligence and talent is the most important thing and is
what makes you valuable. It might tell them that intelligence is
just something you have and not something you develop. It
might deny the role of effort and dedication in achievement. In
short, it might promote a fixed mindset with all of its
vulnerabilities.
The wonderful thing about research is that you can put
questions like this to the test — and we did (Kamins and
Dweck, 1999; Mueller and Dweck, 1998). We gave two groups
of children problems from an IQ test, and we praised them. We
praised the children in one group for their intelligence, telling
them, "Wow, that's a really good score. You must be smart at
this." We praised the children in another group for their effort:
"Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really
hard." That's all we did, but the results were dramatic. We did
studies like this with children of different ages and ethnicities
from around the country, and the results were the same.
Here is what happened with fifth graders. The children praised
for their intelligence did not want to learn. When we offered
them a challenging task that they could learn from, the majority
opted for an easier one, one on which they could avoid making
mistakes. The children praised for their effort wanted the task
they could learn from.
We praised the children in one group for their intelligence,
telling them, “Wow, that’s a really good score. You must be
smart at this.” We praised the children in the other group for
their effort: “Wow, that’s a really good score. You must have
worked really hard.” That’s all we did, but the results were
dramatic.
The children praised for their intelligence lost their confidence
as soon as the problems got more difficult. Now, as a group,
they thought they weren'tsmart. They also lost their enjoyment,
and, as a result, their performance plummeted. On the other
hand, those praised for effort maintained their confidence, their
motivation, and their performance. Actually, their performance
improved over time such that, by the end, they were performing
substantially better than the intelligence-praised children on
this IQ test.
Finally, the children who were praised for their intelligence lied
about their scores more often than the children who were
praised for their effort. We asked children to write something
(anonymously) about their experience to a child in another
school and we left a little space for them to report their scores.
Almost 40 percent of the intelligence-praised children elevated
their scores, whereas only 12 or 13 percent of children in the
other group did so. To me this suggests that, after students are
praised for their intelligence, it's too humiliating for them to
admit mistakes.
The results were so striking that we repeated the study five
times just to be sure, and each time roughly the same things
happened. Intelligence praise, compared to effort (or "process")
praise, put children into a fixed mindset. Instead of giving them
confidence, it made them fragile, so much so that a brush with
difficulty erased their confidence, their enjoyment, and their
good performance, and made them ashamed of their work. This
can hardly be the self-esteem that parents and educators have
been aiming for.
Often, when children stop working in school, parents deal with
this by reassuring their children how smart they are. We can
now see that this simply fans the flames. It confirms the fixed
mindset and makes kids all the more certain that they don't want
to try something difficult — something that could lose them
their parents' high regard.
How should we praise our students? How should we reassure
them? By focusing them on the process they engaged in — their
effort, their strategies, their concentration, their perseverance,
or their improvement.
"You really stuck to that until you got it. That's wonderful!"
"It was a hard project, but you did it one step at a time and it
turned out great!"
"I like how you chose the tough problems to solve. You're really
going to stretch yourself and learn new things."
"I know that school used to be a snap for you. What a waste that
was. Now you really have an opportunity to develop your
abilities."
Brainology
Can a growth mindset be taught directly to kids? If it can be
taught, will it enhance their motivation and grades? We set out
to answer this question by creating a growth mindset workshop
(Blackwell, et al., 2007). We took seventh graders and divided
them into two groups. Both groups got an eight-session
workshop full of great study skills, but the "growth mindset
group" also got lessons in the growth mindset — what it was
and how to apply it to their schoolwork. Those lessons began
with an article called "You Can Grow Your Intelligence: New
Research Shows the Brain Can Be Developed Like a Muscle."
Students were mesmerized by this article and its message. They
loved the idea that the growth of their brains was in their hands.
This article and the lessons that followed changed the terms of
engagement for students. Many students had seen school as a
place where they performed and were judged, but now they
understood that they had an active role to play in the
development of their minds. They got to work, and by the end of
the semester the growth-mindset group showed a significant
increase in their math grades. The control group — the group
that had gotten eight sessions of study skills — showed no
improvement and continued to decline. Even though they had
learned many useful study skills, they did not have the
motivation to put them into practice.
The teachers, who didn't even know there were two different
groups, singled out students in the growth-mindset group as
showing clear changes in their motivation. They reported that
these students were now far more engaged with their
schoolwork and were putting considerably more effort into their
classroom learning, homework, and studying.
Joshua Aronson, Catherine Good, and their colleagues had
similar findings (Aronson, Fried, and Good, 2002; Good,
Aronson, and Inzlicht, 2003). Their studies and ours also found
that negatively stereotyped students (such as girls in math, or
African-American and Hispanic students in math and verbal
areas) showed substantial benefits from being in a growth-
mindset workshop. Stereotypes are typically fixed-mindset
labels. They imply that the trait or ability in question is fixed
and that some groups have it and others don't. Much of the harm
that stereotypes do comes from the fixed-mindset message they
send. The growth mindset, while not denying that performance
differences might exist, portrays abilities as acquirable and
sends a particularly encouraging message to students who have
been negatively stereotyped — one that they respond to with
renewed motivation and engagement.
Inspired by these positive findings, we started to think about
how we could make a growth mindset workshop more widely
available. To do this, we have begun to develop a computer-
based program called "Brainology." In six computer modules,
students learn about the brain and how to make it work better.
They follow two hip teens through their school day, learn how
to confront and solve schoolwork problems, and create study
plans. They visit a state-of-the-art virtual brain lab, do brain
experiments, and find out such things as how the brain changes
with learning — how it grows new connections every time
students learn something new. They also learn how to use this
idea in their schoolwork by putting their study skills to work to
make themselves smarter.
We pilot-tested Brainology in 20 New York City schools.
Virtually all of the students loved it and reported
(anonymously) the ways in which they changed their ideas
about learning and changed their learning and study habits.
Here are some things they said in response to the question, "Did
you change your mind about anything?"
I did change my mind about how the brain works…I will try
harder because I know that the more you try, the more your
brain works.
Yes... I imagine neurons making connections in my brain and I
feel like I am learning something.
My favorite thing from Brainology is the neurons part where
when u learn something, there are connections and they keep
growing. I always picture them when I'm in school.
Teachers also reported changes in their students, saying that
they had become more active and eager learners: "They offer to
practice, study, take notes, or pay attention to ensure that
connections will be made."
What Do We Value?
In our society, we seem to worship talent — and we often
portray it as a gift. Now we can see that this is not motivating
to our students. Those who think they have this gift expect to sit
there with it and be successful. When they aren't successful,
they get defensive and demoralized, and often opt out. Those
who don't think they have the gift also become defensive and
demoralized, and often opt out as well.
We need to correct the harmful idea that people simply have
gifts that transport them to success, and to teach our students
that no matter how smart or talented someone is — be it
Einstein, Mozart, or Michael Jordan — no one succeeds in a big
way without enormous amounts of dedication and effort. It is
through effort that people build their abilities and realize their
potential. More and more research is showing there is one thing
that sets the great successes apart from their equally talented
peers — how hard they've worked (Ericsson, et al., 2006).
Next time you're tempted to praise your students' intelligence or
talent, restrain yourself. Instead, teach them how much fun a
challenging task is, how interesting and informative errors are,
and how great it is to struggle with something and make
progress. Most of all, teach them that by taking on challenges,
making mistakes, and putting forth effort, they are making
themselves smarter.
Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of
Psychology at Stanford University and the author of Mindset:
The New Psychology of Success (Random House, 2006).
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ASSIGNMENT 1
REVIEWING RESEARCH AND
MAKING CONNECTIONS
Due Week 4: 122 points
You’ve learned about the importance of research and the steps
of the sociological research process. For your first assignment,
you will begin to work with this process by carefully reviewing
an
article about a research study. The goal is to have you analyze
the article to see how the steps of the research process informed
the research presented in the piece. This assignment will also
encourage you to make connections between the research and
your own life.
To analyze your article, follow the Ask, Research, Learn, Do
process that is outlined below. This process was introduced in
your webtext as a simplified version of the sociological research
process. It’s a useful tool to help you think critically, answer
questions, and solve problems.
Instructions: Complete both parts of the assignment by
following
the instructions below.
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PART A: REVIEW THE RESEARCH
1) Review Articles
a) Prepare to complete your assignment by
reviewing the articles below. Select one for the
focus of your first assignment.
• “What ‘Personal Space’ Looks Like Around
the World”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/
worldviews/wp/2017/04/24/how-close-is-
too-close-depends-on-where-you-live/?utm_
term=.8f70ef8686ad
• “Millennials aren’t job-hopping any faster
than Generation X did”
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-
tank/2017/04/19/millennials-arent-job-
hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/
• 6 facts about the U.S. military and its
changing demographics
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-
tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about-the-u-s-
military-and-its-changing-demographics/
2) Use the research information presented in the article
to answer the questions below. You should write four
paragraphs, one for each step listed in bold. Refer to
Chapter 2 of the webtext as necessary.
a) Ask:
• What was the topic of the research?
• Who was studied in the research?
• What was the research question that was
answered by the information in the article?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/
24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you-
live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/
24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you-
live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/
24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you-
live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/
24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you-
live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials-
arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials-
arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials-
arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about-
the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about-
the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about-
the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/
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b) Research:
• What research methods were used?
• Summarize the process researchers used to
collect data.
c) Learn:
• What were the key findings of the research?
• What conclusion was drawn from the
research?
d) Do:
• What follow-up question would you now like
to ask and research based on this article?
• Why did you choose this follow-up question?
PART B: MAKE CONNECTIONS
1) Use your article review to help answer the questions
below. You should write two paragraphs, one for each
question.
a) How can you apply the key research findings to
your own life?
b) What are two additional questions that you have
about society based on this research?
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Use Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
margins on all sides.
• Use section headers (Ask, Research, Learn, Do, and
Make Connections) and write left indented paragraphs
under each corresponding section.
• References are not required for this assignment as you
will use one of the assigned articles and your webtext.
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• Include a cover page containing the title of the assign-
ment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the
course title, and the date.
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RUBRIC
Grading for this assignment will be based on the following
rubric:
POINTS: 122 ASSIGNMENT 1: REVIEWING RESEARCH
AND MAKING CONNECTIONS
Criteria Unacceptable
Below 60% - F
Meets Minimum
Expectations
60-69% - D
Fair
70-79% - C
Proficient
80-89% - B
Exemplary
90-100% - A
1. Ask
Identify the re-
search topic, the
people studied,
and the re-
search question.
Weight: 18%
Does not identify
the research
topic, the people
studied, or the
research ques-
tion. The infor-
mation provided
is incorrect.
Insufficiently
identifies the re-
search topic, the
people studied,
and the research
question. The
information pro-
vided is mostly
inaccurate and/
or two or more
questions are
answered incor-
rectly.
Partially identi-
fies the research
topic, the people
studied, and the
research ques-
tion. The informa-
tion provided is
generally accu-
rate, but some
relevant details
are missing or
one question is
answered incor-
rectly.
Identifies the re-
search topic, the
people studied,
and the research
question. The
information pro-
vided is accurate
and provides
relevant details.
There may be
small errors or
omissions.
Identifies the re-
search topic, the
people studied,
and the research
question. The
information pro-
vided is accurate,
provides rele-
vant details, and
demonstrates
understanding by
using sociology
terms. There
are no errors or
omissions.
2. Research
Identify the re-
search methods
and summarize
the research
process.
Weight: 18%
Does not identify
the research
method(s) used
and does not
summarize the
process re-
searchers used
to collect data.
The information
provided is incor-
rect.
Insufficient-
ly identifies
the research
method(s) used
and does not
provide a com-
plete summary
of the process
researchers used
to collect data.
The description
of the research
process is miss-
ing key steps.
Correctly identi-
fies the research
method(s) used
and summarizes
the key steps of
the process re-
searchers used to
collect data. Pro-
vides a high-level
description of the
research process,
but does not
include sufficient
details.
Correctly identi-
fies the research
method(s) used
and generally
summarizes
the process
researchers used
to collect data.
Provides a gen-
eral description
of the research
process.
Correctly identi-
fies the research
method(s) used
and summariz-
es the process
researchers used
to collect data.
Provides a de-
tailed description
of the complete
research process.
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POINTS: 122 ASSIGNMENT 1: REVIEWING RESEARCH
AND MAKING CONNECTIONS
Criteria Unacceptable
Below 60% - F
Meets Minimum
Expectations
60-69% - D
Fair
70-79% - C
Proficient
80-89% - B
Exemplary
90-100% - A
3. Learn
Describe the key
findings of the
researchers and
the conclusion
drawn from the
research.
Weight: 18%
Does not de-
scribe the key
findings and/or
conclusion and
does not pro-
vide supporting
details.
Inaccurately
describes key
findings or con-
clusion and sup-
porting details
are sparse.
Partially de-
scribes key
findings and
conclusion but
some of the sup-
porting details
are missing.
Accurately
describes key
findings and
conclusion and
includes sup-
porting details.
Accurately
describes key
findings and
conclusion and
includes sup-
porting details.
Demonstrates
strong under-
standing by
using sociolo-
gy terms and
providing logical,
accurate, and
concise informa-
tion.
4. Do
Propose a fol-
low-up question
and an explana-
tion.
Weight: 18%
Does not pro-
pose a follow-up
question or does
not align with
key research
findings and
does not provide
details.
Proposes a fol-
low-up question
that isn’t fully
aligned with the
key findings of
the research,
or the explana-
tion is missing
details.
Proposes a fol-
low-up question
that isn’t fully
aligned with the
key findings of
the research,
or the explana-
tion is missing
details.
Proposes a fol-
low-up question
that is aligned
with the key
findings of the
research, and
provides a logi-
cal explanation
that includes
some details.
Proposes a fol-
low-up question
that is aligned
with the key
findings of the
research, and
provides a logi-
cal explanation
that includes
supporting
details. Demon-
strates strong
understanding
by using sociolo-
gy terms.
5. Describe how
the key research
findings could
be applied and
propose two
questions about
society.
Weight: 18%
Does not
describe how
the key findings
could be ap-
plied, or does
not propose two
questions about
society.
Supporting de-
tails are sparse
to describe how
the key findings
could be applied,
or to support
two proposed
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Brainology Transforming Students’ Motivation to LearnBy Carol S.docx

  • 1. Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn By Carol S. Dweck This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research is showing that our brains change constantly with learning and experience and that this takes place throughout our lives. Does this have implications for students' motivation and learning? It certainly does. In my research in collaboration with my graduate students, we have shown that what students believe about their brains — whether they see their intelligence as something that's fixed or something that can grow and change — has profound effects on their motivation, learning, and school achievement (Dweck, 2006). These different beliefs, or mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks, and one in which students relish challenges and are resilient in the face of setbacks. How do these mindsets work? How are the mindsets communicated to students? And, most important, can they be changed? As we answer these questions, you will understand why so many students do not achieve to their potential, why so many bright students stop working when school becomes challenging, and why stereotypes have such profound effects on students' achievement. You will also learn how praise can have a negative effect on students' mindsets, harming their motivation to learn. Mindsets and Achievement Many students believe that intelligence is fixed, that each person has a certain amount and that's that. We call this a fixed mindset, and, as you will see, students with this mindset worry about how much of this fixed intelligence they possess. A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students (because they believe that their fixed ability may not be up to the task) and it makes mistakes and failures demoralizing (because they believe
  • 2. that such setbacks reflect badly on their level of fixed intelligence). It is the belief that intelligence can be developed that opens students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and constructive, determined reactions to setbacks. Other students believe that intelligence is something that can be cultivated through effort and education. They don't necessarily believe that everyone has the same abilities or that anyone can be as smart as Einstein, but they do believe that everyone can improve their abilities. And they understand that even Einstein wasn't Einstein until he put in years of focused hard work. In short, students with this growth mindset believe that intelligence is a potential that can be realized through learning. As a result, confronting challenges, profiting from mistakes, and persevering in the face of setbacks become ways of getting smarter. To understand the different worlds these mindsets create, we followed several hundred students across a difficult school transition — the transition to seventh grade. This is when the academic work often gets much harder, the grading gets stricter, and the school environment gets less personalized with students moving from class to class. As the students entered seventh grade, we measured their mindsets (along with a number of other things) and then we monitored their grades over the next two years. The first thing we found was that students with different mindsets cared about different things in school. Those with a growth mindset were much more interested in learning than in just looking smart in school. This was not the case for students with a fixed mindset. In fact, in many of our studies with students from preschool age to college age, we find that students with a fixed mindset care so much about how smart they will appear that they often reject learning opportunities — even ones that are critical to their success (Cimpian, et al., 2007; Hong, et al., 1999; Nussbaum and Dweck, 2008; Mangels, et al., 2006).
  • 3. Next, we found that students with the two mindsets had radically different beliefs about effort. Those with a growth mindset had a very straightforward (and correct) idea of effort — the idea that the harder you work, the more your ability will grow and that even geniuses have had to work hard for their accomplishments. In contrast, the students with the fixed mindset believed that if you worked hard it meant that you didn't have ability, and that things would just come naturally to you if you did. This means that every time something is hard for them and requires effort, it's both a threat and a bind. If they work hard at it that means that they aren't good at it, but if they don't work hard they won't do well. Clearly, since just about every worthwhile pursuit involves effort over a long period of time, this is a potentially crippling belief, not only in school but also in life. Students with different mindsets also had very different reactions to setbacks. Those with growth mindsets reported that, after a setback in school, they would simply study more or study differently the next time. But those with fixed mindsets were more likely to say that they would feel dumb, study less the next time, and seriously consider cheating. If you feel dumb — permanently dumb — in an academic area, there is no good way to bounce back and be successful in the future. In a growth mindset, however, you can make a plan of positive action that can remedy a deficiency. (Hong. et al., 1999; Nussbaum and Dweck, 2008; Heyman, et al., 1992) Finally, when we looked at the math grades they went on to earn, we found that the students with a growth mindset had pulled ahead. Although both groups had started seventh grade with equivalent achievement test scores, a growth mindset quickly propelled students ahead of their fixed-mindset peers, and this gap only increased over the two years of the study. In short, the belief that intelligence is fixed dampened students' motivation to learn, made them afraid of effort, and made them want to quit after a setback. This is why so many bright students stop working when school becomes hard. Many bright students
  • 4. find grade school easy and coast to success early on. But later on, when they are challenged, they struggle. They don't want to make mistakes and feel dumb — and, most of all, they don't want to work hard and feel dumb. So they simply retire. It is the belief that intelligence can be developed that opens students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and constructive, determined reactions to setbacks. How Do Students Learn These Mindsets? In the 1990s, parents and schools decided that the most important thing for kids to have was self-esteem. If children felt good about themselves, people believed, they would be set for life. In some quarters, self-esteem in math seemed to become more important than knowing math, and self-esteem in English seemed to become more important than reading and writing. But the biggest mistake was the belief that you could simply hand children self-esteem by telling them how smart and talented they are. Even though this is such an intuitively appealing idea, and even though it was exceedingly well-intentioned, I believe it has had disastrous effects. In the 1990s, we took a poll among parents and found that almost 85 percent endorsed the notion that it was necessary to praise their children's abilities to give them confidence and help them achieve. Their children are now in the workforce and we are told that young workers cannot last through the day without being propped up by praise, rewards, and recognition. Coaches are asking me where all the coachable athletes have gone. Parents ask me why their children won't work hard in school. Could all of this come from well-meant praise? Well, we were suspicious of the praise movement at the time. We had already seen in our research that it was the most vulnerable children who were already obsessed with their intelligence and chronically worried about how smart they were. What if praising intelligence made all children concerned about their intelligence? This kind of praise might tell them that having high intelligence and talent is the most important thing and is what makes you valuable. It might tell them that intelligence is
  • 5. just something you have and not something you develop. It might deny the role of effort and dedication in achievement. In short, it might promote a fixed mindset with all of its vulnerabilities. The wonderful thing about research is that you can put questions like this to the test — and we did (Kamins and Dweck, 1999; Mueller and Dweck, 1998). We gave two groups of children problems from an IQ test, and we praised them. We praised the children in one group for their intelligence, telling them, "Wow, that's a really good score. You must be smart at this." We praised the children in another group for their effort: "Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard." That's all we did, but the results were dramatic. We did studies like this with children of different ages and ethnicities from around the country, and the results were the same. Here is what happened with fifth graders. The children praised for their intelligence did not want to learn. When we offered them a challenging task that they could learn from, the majority opted for an easier one, one on which they could avoid making mistakes. The children praised for their effort wanted the task they could learn from. We praised the children in one group for their intelligence, telling them, “Wow, that’s a really good score. You must be smart at this.” We praised the children in the other group for their effort: “Wow, that’s a really good score. You must have worked really hard.” That’s all we did, but the results were dramatic. The children praised for their intelligence lost their confidence as soon as the problems got more difficult. Now, as a group, they thought they weren'tsmart. They also lost their enjoyment, and, as a result, their performance plummeted. On the other hand, those praised for effort maintained their confidence, their motivation, and their performance. Actually, their performance improved over time such that, by the end, they were performing substantially better than the intelligence-praised children on this IQ test.
  • 6. Finally, the children who were praised for their intelligence lied about their scores more often than the children who were praised for their effort. We asked children to write something (anonymously) about their experience to a child in another school and we left a little space for them to report their scores. Almost 40 percent of the intelligence-praised children elevated their scores, whereas only 12 or 13 percent of children in the other group did so. To me this suggests that, after students are praised for their intelligence, it's too humiliating for them to admit mistakes. The results were so striking that we repeated the study five times just to be sure, and each time roughly the same things happened. Intelligence praise, compared to effort (or "process") praise, put children into a fixed mindset. Instead of giving them confidence, it made them fragile, so much so that a brush with difficulty erased their confidence, their enjoyment, and their good performance, and made them ashamed of their work. This can hardly be the self-esteem that parents and educators have been aiming for. Often, when children stop working in school, parents deal with this by reassuring their children how smart they are. We can now see that this simply fans the flames. It confirms the fixed mindset and makes kids all the more certain that they don't want to try something difficult — something that could lose them their parents' high regard. How should we praise our students? How should we reassure them? By focusing them on the process they engaged in — their effort, their strategies, their concentration, their perseverance, or their improvement. "You really stuck to that until you got it. That's wonderful!" "It was a hard project, but you did it one step at a time and it turned out great!" "I like how you chose the tough problems to solve. You're really going to stretch yourself and learn new things." "I know that school used to be a snap for you. What a waste that was. Now you really have an opportunity to develop your
  • 7. abilities." Brainology Can a growth mindset be taught directly to kids? If it can be taught, will it enhance their motivation and grades? We set out to answer this question by creating a growth mindset workshop (Blackwell, et al., 2007). We took seventh graders and divided them into two groups. Both groups got an eight-session workshop full of great study skills, but the "growth mindset group" also got lessons in the growth mindset — what it was and how to apply it to their schoolwork. Those lessons began with an article called "You Can Grow Your Intelligence: New Research Shows the Brain Can Be Developed Like a Muscle." Students were mesmerized by this article and its message. They loved the idea that the growth of their brains was in their hands. This article and the lessons that followed changed the terms of engagement for students. Many students had seen school as a place where they performed and were judged, but now they understood that they had an active role to play in the development of their minds. They got to work, and by the end of the semester the growth-mindset group showed a significant increase in their math grades. The control group — the group that had gotten eight sessions of study skills — showed no improvement and continued to decline. Even though they had learned many useful study skills, they did not have the motivation to put them into practice. The teachers, who didn't even know there were two different groups, singled out students in the growth-mindset group as showing clear changes in their motivation. They reported that these students were now far more engaged with their schoolwork and were putting considerably more effort into their classroom learning, homework, and studying. Joshua Aronson, Catherine Good, and their colleagues had similar findings (Aronson, Fried, and Good, 2002; Good, Aronson, and Inzlicht, 2003). Their studies and ours also found that negatively stereotyped students (such as girls in math, or African-American and Hispanic students in math and verbal
  • 8. areas) showed substantial benefits from being in a growth- mindset workshop. Stereotypes are typically fixed-mindset labels. They imply that the trait or ability in question is fixed and that some groups have it and others don't. Much of the harm that stereotypes do comes from the fixed-mindset message they send. The growth mindset, while not denying that performance differences might exist, portrays abilities as acquirable and sends a particularly encouraging message to students who have been negatively stereotyped — one that they respond to with renewed motivation and engagement. Inspired by these positive findings, we started to think about how we could make a growth mindset workshop more widely available. To do this, we have begun to develop a computer- based program called "Brainology." In six computer modules, students learn about the brain and how to make it work better. They follow two hip teens through their school day, learn how to confront and solve schoolwork problems, and create study plans. They visit a state-of-the-art virtual brain lab, do brain experiments, and find out such things as how the brain changes with learning — how it grows new connections every time students learn something new. They also learn how to use this idea in their schoolwork by putting their study skills to work to make themselves smarter. We pilot-tested Brainology in 20 New York City schools. Virtually all of the students loved it and reported (anonymously) the ways in which they changed their ideas about learning and changed their learning and study habits. Here are some things they said in response to the question, "Did you change your mind about anything?" I did change my mind about how the brain works…I will try harder because I know that the more you try, the more your brain works. Yes... I imagine neurons making connections in my brain and I feel like I am learning something. My favorite thing from Brainology is the neurons part where when u learn something, there are connections and they keep
  • 9. growing. I always picture them when I'm in school. Teachers also reported changes in their students, saying that they had become more active and eager learners: "They offer to practice, study, take notes, or pay attention to ensure that connections will be made." What Do We Value? In our society, we seem to worship talent — and we often portray it as a gift. Now we can see that this is not motivating to our students. Those who think they have this gift expect to sit there with it and be successful. When they aren't successful, they get defensive and demoralized, and often opt out. Those who don't think they have the gift also become defensive and demoralized, and often opt out as well. We need to correct the harmful idea that people simply have gifts that transport them to success, and to teach our students that no matter how smart or talented someone is — be it Einstein, Mozart, or Michael Jordan — no one succeeds in a big way without enormous amounts of dedication and effort. It is through effort that people build their abilities and realize their potential. More and more research is showing there is one thing that sets the great successes apart from their equally talented peers — how hard they've worked (Ericsson, et al., 2006). Next time you're tempted to praise your students' intelligence or talent, restrain yourself. Instead, teach them how much fun a challenging task is, how interesting and informative errors are, and how great it is to struggle with something and make progress. Most of all, teach them that by taking on challenges, making mistakes, and putting forth effort, they are making themselves smarter. Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Random House, 2006). References Aronson, J., Fried, C., & Good, C. (2002). Reducing the effects of stereotype threat on African American college students by
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  • 11. Bulletin. 1 ASSIGNMENT 1 REVIEWING RESEARCH AND MAKING CONNECTIONS Due Week 4: 122 points You’ve learned about the importance of research and the steps of the sociological research process. For your first assignment, you will begin to work with this process by carefully reviewing an article about a research study. The goal is to have you analyze the article to see how the steps of the research process informed the research presented in the piece. This assignment will also encourage you to make connections between the research and your own life. To analyze your article, follow the Ask, Research, Learn, Do process that is outlined below. This process was introduced in your webtext as a simplified version of the sociological research process. It’s a useful tool to help you think critically, answer questions, and solve problems. Instructions: Complete both parts of the assignment by following the instructions below. 2
  • 12. PART A: REVIEW THE RESEARCH 1) Review Articles a) Prepare to complete your assignment by reviewing the articles below. Select one for the focus of your first assignment. • “What ‘Personal Space’ Looks Like Around the World” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ worldviews/wp/2017/04/24/how-close-is- too-close-depends-on-where-you-live/?utm_ term=.8f70ef8686ad • “Millennials aren’t job-hopping any faster than Generation X did” http://www.pewresearch.org/fact- tank/2017/04/19/millennials-arent-job- hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/ • 6 facts about the U.S. military and its changing demographics http://www.pewresearch.org/fact- tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about-the-u-s- military-and-its-changing-demographics/ 2) Use the research information presented in the article to answer the questions below. You should write four paragraphs, one for each step listed in bold. Refer to Chapter 2 of the webtext as necessary. a) Ask: • What was the topic of the research?
  • 13. • Who was studied in the research? • What was the research question that was answered by the information in the article? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/ 24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you- live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/ 24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you- live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/ 24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you- live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/ 24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you- live/?utm_term=.8f70ef8686ad http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials- arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials- arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/19/millennials- arent-job-hopping-any-faster-than-generation-x-did/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about- the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about- the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/13/6-facts-about- the-u-s-military-and-its-changing-demographics/ 3 b) Research: • What research methods were used?
  • 14. • Summarize the process researchers used to collect data. c) Learn: • What were the key findings of the research? • What conclusion was drawn from the research? d) Do: • What follow-up question would you now like to ask and research based on this article? • Why did you choose this follow-up question? PART B: MAKE CONNECTIONS 1) Use your article review to help answer the questions below. You should write two paragraphs, one for each question. a) How can you apply the key research findings to your own life? b) What are two additional questions that you have about society based on this research? Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Use Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. • Use section headers (Ask, Research, Learn, Do, and
  • 15. Make Connections) and write left indented paragraphs under each corresponding section. • References are not required for this assignment as you will use one of the assigned articles and your webtext. 4 • Include a cover page containing the title of the assign- ment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. 5 RUBRIC Grading for this assignment will be based on the following rubric: POINTS: 122 ASSIGNMENT 1: REVIEWING RESEARCH AND MAKING CONNECTIONS Criteria Unacceptable Below 60% - F Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% - D Fair
  • 16. 70-79% - C Proficient 80-89% - B Exemplary 90-100% - A 1. Ask Identify the re- search topic, the people studied, and the re- search question. Weight: 18% Does not identify the research topic, the people studied, or the research ques- tion. The infor- mation provided is incorrect. Insufficiently identifies the re- search topic, the
  • 17. people studied, and the research question. The information pro- vided is mostly inaccurate and/ or two or more questions are answered incor- rectly. Partially identi- fies the research topic, the people studied, and the research ques- tion. The informa- tion provided is generally accu- rate, but some relevant details are missing or one question is answered incor- rectly. Identifies the re- search topic, the people studied, and the research question. The information pro- vided is accurate and provides relevant details. There may be
  • 18. small errors or omissions. Identifies the re- search topic, the people studied, and the research question. The information pro- vided is accurate, provides rele- vant details, and demonstrates understanding by using sociology terms. There are no errors or omissions. 2. Research Identify the re- search methods and summarize the research process. Weight: 18% Does not identify the research method(s) used and does not summarize the process re- searchers used
  • 19. to collect data. The information provided is incor- rect. Insufficient- ly identifies the research method(s) used and does not provide a com- plete summary of the process researchers used to collect data. The description of the research process is miss- ing key steps. Correctly identi- fies the research method(s) used and summarizes the key steps of the process re- searchers used to collect data. Pro- vides a high-level description of the research process, but does not include sufficient details. Correctly identi-
  • 20. fies the research method(s) used and generally summarizes the process researchers used to collect data. Provides a gen- eral description of the research process. Correctly identi- fies the research method(s) used and summariz- es the process researchers used to collect data. Provides a de- tailed description of the complete research process. 6 POINTS: 122 ASSIGNMENT 1: REVIEWING RESEARCH AND MAKING CONNECTIONS Criteria Unacceptable Below 60% - F
  • 21. Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% - D Fair 70-79% - C Proficient 80-89% - B Exemplary 90-100% - A 3. Learn Describe the key findings of the researchers and the conclusion drawn from the research. Weight: 18% Does not de- scribe the key findings and/or conclusion and does not pro-
  • 22. vide supporting details. Inaccurately describes key findings or con- clusion and sup- porting details are sparse. Partially de- scribes key findings and conclusion but some of the sup- porting details are missing. Accurately describes key findings and conclusion and includes sup- porting details. Accurately describes key findings and conclusion and includes sup- porting details. Demonstrates strong under- standing by using sociolo- gy terms and
  • 23. providing logical, accurate, and concise informa- tion. 4. Do Propose a fol- low-up question and an explana- tion. Weight: 18% Does not pro- pose a follow-up question or does not align with key research findings and does not provide details. Proposes a fol- low-up question that isn’t fully aligned with the key findings of the research, or the explana- tion is missing details. Proposes a fol- low-up question that isn’t fully
  • 24. aligned with the key findings of the research, or the explana- tion is missing details. Proposes a fol- low-up question that is aligned with the key findings of the research, and provides a logi- cal explanation that includes some details. Proposes a fol- low-up question that is aligned with the key findings of the research, and provides a logi- cal explanation that includes supporting details. Demon- strates strong understanding by using sociolo- gy terms. 5. Describe how the key research
  • 25. findings could be applied and propose two questions about society. Weight: 18% Does not describe how the key findings could be ap- plied, or does not propose two questions about society. Supporting de- tails are sparse to describe how the key findings could be applied, or to support two proposed questions about society. Supporting de- tails are used but some key details are missing to describe how the key findings could be applied, or to support two proposed
  • 26. questions about society. Includes sup- porting details to describe how to apply key findings and proposes two questions about society based on the research. Supporting details are provided to fully describe how the key findings could be applied and to support two proposed questions about society. Demon- strates strong understanding by using sociolo- gy terms. 7 POINTS: 122 ASSIGNMENT 1: REVIEWING RESEARCH AND MAKING CONNECTIONS Criteria Unacceptable
  • 27. Below 60% - F Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% - D Fair 70-79% - C Proficient 80-89% - B Exemplary 90-100% - A 6. Write in a skillful manner using stated formatting and correct gram- mar and spell- ing. Weight: 10% Writing does not meet minimal
  • 28. standards. Tone is not appro- priate. Wholly lacking in logic, clarity, and/or stated format- ting. Contains many spelling and/or grammat- ical errors. Writing meets minimal stan- dards. Tone is not appropri- ate. Lacking one or more of logic, clarity, and/or stated formatting. May contain many spelling and/ or grammatical errors. Writing is satis- factory. Appro- priate and/or consistent tone is developing. Shows moder- ate logic, clarity, and/or stated formatting. May contain more than a few
  • 29. spelling and/ or grammatical errors. Writing is profi- cient. Tone is ap- propriate. Shows logic, clarity, and stated formatting. May contain few or no spelling and/ or grammatical errors. Writing is ex- cellent. Tone is appropriate and demonstrates excellent word choice. Shows exceptional logic, clarity, and stated format- ting. Contains no spelling or gram- matical errors.