Funk, Crystal Brooke_MED_2021

Title Funk, Crystal Brooke_MED_2021
Alternative Title A MINDSET INTERVENTION IN A HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY CLASS
Creator Funk, Crystal Brooke
Collection Name Master of Education
Description Students present with different learning mindsets while they are learning. When it comes to their attitudes towards their own learning abilities, students can be placed along a continuum between learning mindsets that are more growth-oriented and those that are more fixed. A growth mindset is exhibited when students believe that their intelligence is something they have a degree of control over and is something that they can change. Students with a more fixed mindset believe that their academic abilities are static and that their efforts will not do much to change their intelligence. Students exhibiting these different mindsets react differently in challenging academic situations. This paper describes a mindset intervention created and used by a high school biology teacher in an effort to shift the mindsets of her students to become more growth-oriented. Through the use of the mindset intervention, the mean mindset scores of the students increased and showed a significant shift towards a more growth-oriented mindset. This project also served as a learning opportunity for the teacher about how emotions and a positive classroom culture affect student learning.
Subject Education--Research--Methodology; Education
Keywords Students--Attitudes; Education; Education--Aims and objectives
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2021
Date Digital 2021
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University
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Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s67hhpmg
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96846
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s67hhpmg