A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

Students tend to like friendly teachers, but they like those who believe they can improve even more, new research indicates. Students in a study still responded positively to instructors described as ...

The idea that math is a natural-born talent—that some people just “get it,” and others won’t no matter the time and effort put in—is a mentality that researchers and schools have been challenging for ...

A new online professional development (PD) course for teachers aims to encourage “growth mindset” classroom cultures through tweaks to existing pedagogical practices like assignment feedback and first ...

It's been more than 30 years since psychologist Carol Dweck introduced "growth mindset"—the psychological and motivational effects of believing that a person's ability in any domain is not fixed but ...

Few concepts in contemporary education have been more influential than the growth mindset, first articulated in the early aughts by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck. Studies have found evidence that ...

Chances are, you have heard about the value of taking a growth mindset for a variety of learning situations. Research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues pioneered the idea that you can view things like ...

Art Markman is an expert on what makes people tick. The psychology professor at UT Austin has also become a popular voice working to translate research from the lab into advice for a general audience.

Instead of bright colors and posters all over the walls, the tones are neutral and muted. The only materials hanging are intentional — a line of small pictures in a row pinned behind the reading table ...

A central part of 'growth mindset' is that the mind is like a muscle that can get stronger with hard work, rather than a fixed thing. A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to ...