Over time,
students with a growth mindset develop more positive attitudes and beliefs about themselves as learners, which can increase their academic perseverance and prompt them to engage in productive academic behaviors.
This praise can have significant effects upon students: citing longtitudinal studies with Year 7 maths students, Dweck has shown
how students with a growth mindset are far more likely to take on more challenging work and succeed at it than students with a fixed mindset - even if all other factors remain the same.
Students with a growth mindset present a higher increase in achievement at higher grades, a difference that may be due to actual differences or to differences in the accuracy of reporting for older students relative to younger students.
Students with a fixed mindset are those who are more likely to give up easily,
whereas students with a growth mindset are those who keep going even when work is hard, and who are persistent.
Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to «learn at all times and at all costs.»
Students with a growth mindset were more motivated to learn and exert effort, and outperformed those with a fixed mindset in math — a gap that continued to increase over the two - year period.
A student with a growth mindset in spring 2015 has ELA and Math test scores in the spring of 2016 that are approximately 0.07 and 0.04 standard deviations (SD) higher than a similar classmate (i.e., a classmate with the same previous achievement and demographic characteristics in the same school) with a fixed mindset (approximately two standard deviations below).
A student with a growth mindset who chooses to listen to his or her Inner Friend is much more resilient and can reach ever - higher levels of achievement.
Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School A large, comprehensive middle school that personalizes learning by providing
all students with growth mindset - related instruction and supports.
Students with a growth mindset may tackle such work with excitement, whereas students with a fixed mindset may feel threatened by learning tasks that require them to stretch or take risks.