Why do a lot of students tend to feel their intelligence is limited? A lot of students growing up think intelligence is fixed and think there's no room for growth. In recent studies from research psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford University came to ask “"If we gave students a growth mindset, if we taught them how to think about their intelligence, would that benefit their grades?". “Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades” by Michelle Trudeau is an article based off what was heard on Morning Edition, in the article it discuss the meaning of “fixed mindset” and “growth mindset” it also mention the types of students that have these mindsets. Carol Dweck and a colleague of hers decided to do an experiment where they divide students
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I remember back in high school my teacher told me that the brain is something that never stop growing and that a person is as smart as they want to be. What she told me that day forever stuck with me. She made me view things differently and since then I never skipped over a question or problem I didn’t understand without trying because just trying to solve the problem gives the mind the food it needs to grow even if I don’t get it right. But also allows me to gain the confidence I need in my work and to have the want to do better mindset. That’s where Dweck’s study comes in, she wanted to know if students that are taught to expand their mind do better than those that have a “fixed mindset”; the thought of intelligence being carved in stone. Carol found that in a study of 100 seventh graders all of which are doing poorly in math were randomly divided into workshops, one workshop consist of teaching good studying skills, while the other taught about expanding the nature of intelligence and the brain. Dweck saw that the group of kids who was taught that the brain can grow smarter, done better than the other group.
Carol Dweck’s research is very self evident but also has fact evidence and I agree with her theory. Although the growth mindset is the more favored of the two to me, but the fixed mindset also has it’s benefits such as knowing your boundaries sometimes a person shouldn’t stretch
I remember back in high school my teacher told me that the brain is something that never stop growing and that a person is as smart as they want to be. What she told me that day forever stuck with me. She made me view things differently and since then I never skipped over a question or problem I didn’t understand without trying because just trying to solve the problem gives the mind the food it needs to grow even if I don’t get it right. But also allows me to gain the confidence I need in my work and to have the want to do better mindset. That’s where Dweck’s study comes in, she wanted to know if students that are taught to expand their mind do better than those that have a “fixed mindset”; the thought of intelligence being carved in stone. Carol found that in a study of 100 seventh graders all of which are doing poorly in math were randomly divided into workshops, one workshop consist of teaching good studying skills, while the other taught about expanding the nature of intelligence and the brain. Dweck saw that the group of kids who was taught that the brain can grow smarter, done better than the other group.
Carol Dweck’s research is very self evident but also has fact evidence and I agree with her theory. Although the growth mindset is the more favored of the two to me, but the fixed mindset also has it’s benefits such as knowing your boundaries sometimes a person shouldn’t stretch