EDU 630 - Strategies for Online Instruction
Research guide developed specifically to support the EDU630 learning objectives & projects.
Growth Mindset & Mastery Based Learning
The following example resources should help you better understand the concept of growth mindset. Take a moment to skim and read any resources below. Can you make connections to see where you might be interested in learning more? Watch the video below, which is an interview with psychologist Carol Dweck who pioneered the investigation of mindsets, click on the image below to play to get started on learning about this topic Mindsets- A Conversation with Carol Dweck This link opens in a new window.
Example Resources
Growth Mindset Pocketbook by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781908284723Publication Date: 2014-01-01Whatever it is that makes you you, can you affect it? Your answer to that question gives us a glimpse into your 'mindset'. People with fixed mindsets believe that fundamental qualities like intelligence are essentially stable; people with growth mindsets believe that such qualities can be developed and nurtured. As teachers, if we can foster growth mindsets in our students the results will be transformative. Barry Hymer and Mike Gershon begin by explaining how learners with growth mindsets are: more open to challenges and constructively critical feedback; resilient in the face of obstacles and initial failure; convinced that effort makes a difference; able to learn well with and from others; likely to rise to the top - and stay there.- The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter: The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru. Policy Research Working Paper 9141 byPublication Date: 2020This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person's own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city. At a cost of $0.20 per pupil, ¡Expande tu Mente! was highly cost-effective. The results show the potential that brief growth-mindset interventions have for developing countries. [This paper is a product of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice.]
- Embracing the Growth Mindset in the Classroom byPublication Date: 2020By teaching students about the concept of growth mindset and ways to cultivate it, teachers can enhance students' academic progress. This article offers concrete ideas to help teachers foster the growth mindset explicitly among their students. The lesson is flexible and can be applied to all levels.
- How can we inspire nations of learners? An investigation of growth mindset and challenge-seeking in two countries. byPublication Date: November 12, 2020Here we evaluate the potential for growth mindset interventions (that teach students that intellectual abilities can be developed) to inspire adolescents to be 'learners'—that is, to seek out challenging learning experiences. In a previous analysis, the U.S. National Study of Learning Mindsets (NSLM) showed that a growth mindset could improve the grades of lower-achieving adolescents, and, in an exploratory analysis, increase enrollment in advanced math courses across achievement levels. Yet, the importance of being a 'learner' in today’s global economy requires clarification and replication of potential challenge-seeking effects, as well as an investigation of the school affordances that make intervention effects on challenge-seeking possible.
- The Teacher's Quest for Progress: How School Leaders Can Motivate Instructional Innovation byPublication Date: 2018This paper is a guide for any school leaders, district administrators, technical assistance providers, policymakers, and foundations whose reform initiatives hinge on whether teachers decide to embrace new practices. This report offers an overview of the Jobs to Be Done framework, then dives into the authors' research findings and recommendations. [This research was made possible by a generous grant from Fremont Street.]
- Mastery Learning in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Online Education byPublication Date: 2016Mastery-based education, or mastery learning as it is more commonly known, can be best described by its two main assumptions. First, mastery learning assumes that virtually all learners can learn all important academic content to a level of excellence. Second, the primary function of schools is to define learning objectives and help all students achieve them. Mastery learning is based on an explicit philosophy of teaching and learning that assumes that given the appropriate instructional conditions, virtually all students can learn well or master most of what they are taught.
- A Batch of One: A Conceptual Framework for the Personalized Learning Movement byPublication Date: 2019Variation in definitions and models of personalized learning has created confusion and disagreement among practitioners and scholars. However, personalized learning continues to be broadly promoted and funded within schools. This paper offers an inclusive definition of what is happening within the personalized learning movement and aims to be inclusive of diverse epistemologies and cultures. To do this, we revisit the seminal metaphor of the factory model of schooling and follow contemporary changes seen in manufacturing to highlight similar trajectories seen in both fields and justify this new definition, which states that personalized learning is the mass customization of learning through a unique combination of automated and student-centered pedagogies.
Databases for further research
Now that you have an idea of what these concepts and theories are and how they have been used in some examples, continue learning by researching on your own. The databases below aren't the only places you can look, but give them a try first! What additional contexts do you want to explore in these areas?
- ERIC - EBSCO This link opens in a new windowContains citations and abstracts from education-related journals and document published by ERIC.
- Education Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new windowMagazines, scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals and reports in the field of education
- SAGE Journals This link opens in a new windowThe SAGE Journals platform includes full text of scholarly journals from SAGE publications in many disciplines, such as, education, sociology, women's studies, criminal justice and business.
