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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"mindsets"”.
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Enabling 'growth mindsets' in engineering students
… theory lens on six characteristics of fixed mindsets (beliefs that ability can only be developed to an individually pre-determined level) and growth mindsets (beliefs that that effective effort will lead to unlimited self-improvement), I develop a theoretical framework that explains how both …
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Does inducing growth-oriented mindsets about math ability in parents enhance children’s math mindsets, affect, and achievement?
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Changing Mindsets: Sustainable Design in Historic Preservation
… do. The key to integration is the changing of mindsets. Educating industry stakeholders as to how and why this linkage can be made is a vital component to effectively taking green building and historic preservation to higher elevations of outreach and implementation. This paper investigates …
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Grit, mindsets, and persistence of engineering students
Undergraduate engineering programs in the United States suffer from high rates of attrition. To develop the knowledge base that can inform efforts to reduce attrition rates, I conducted three studies focused on helping students persist in engineering. In the first study, I investigated whether grit …
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An investigation of hardware and software mindsets
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Effects of mating mindsets on variety seeking
This research shows that mating mindsets, which consumers commonly experience, can have a crucial impact on consumers' variety seeking tendencies. In two studies, we find that male consumers in a long-term mating mindset (versus a non-mating mindset) exhibit more (versus less) variety seeking …
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“Fixed Mindsets” and the Deprecation of Youth Voice
… find that adults, in their words, have “fixed mindsets”. Student participants also enumerated a value to the practice and pursuit of research when developing their worldviews when they also believe that this work will lead to meaningful change in their communities and more specifically their …
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Mindsets: lived experiences of black actuarial science students
… experiences and factors shaping these students' mindsets. Mindsets are influenced by parental feedback, socioeconomic status, background, and socialisation, among other factors. At historically white UCT, challenges faced by black African actuarial science students stem from a clash between their …
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The Impact Of Student Mindsets In The Virtual Math Classroom
<p>Mindset has been studied in multiple traditional school settings, but its interaction with transactional distance in a virtual school environment is missing from the current research. This dissertation explores the experiences of students and learning coaches in a virtual high school through a …
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Academic mindsets of students with emotional disabilities across the special education continuum
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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THE IMPACT OF MINDSETS ON LITERACY TEACHING IN HOMESCHOOLING ENVIRONMENTS: A CHAT ANALYSIS
… study explores the impact Lankshear and Knobel's mindsets have on teachers' decisions to implement digital technologies in education. Specifically I ask how mindsets about knowledge production and technology are mediators of, and mediated by, the activity of literacy teaching and learning in …
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Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence
Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Specifically, those with a fixed emotion mindset (FEM; beliefs that emotions are …
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Cultivating Mindsets and Transformative Practices of Beginning Alternative Certified Teachers: A Teacher Perception Study
<p>The shortage of qualified teachers in the United States has been a persistent issue for decades. The number of qualified candidates to fill teaching vacancies has fallen short as the number of teachers needed to educate today continues to increase (Carothers et al., 2019). Traditionally, teacher …
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Implications of Mothers' Ability Mindsets for Their Involvement in Children's Learning: An Experimental Investigation
… of mothers' incremental versus entity ability mindsets in the quality of their involvement in children's learning. Mothers (N = 81) of early elementary school children (mean age = 7.65 years) were given either an incremental or entity mindset. Mothers' unconstructive (i.e., performance-oriented …
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Changing mindsets through lived experience : an exploratory study of a partnership in occupational therapy education
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-165).
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Is Math for Me? The Impact of Identification, Mindsets, and Belonging on Marginalized Adolescents’ Math Anxiety
… math anxiety, 2) the effect of math ability mindsets on secondary school students’ math anxiety, 3) the effect of math belonging on secondary students’ math anxiety, and 4) the joint contribution of all three factors (math identification, math ability mindsets, and math belonging) on math …
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A Comparison Study of Beliefs and Perceptions of Growth Mindsets Between P-12 Teachers and Parents
… increasing towards building cultures of growth mindsets that promote positive outcomes for all stakeholders. Nevertheless, a continuous cycle of false growth mindsets continues to spread among educational entities and parenting practices worldwide. Dweck suggests that many educators, students, …
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Leaders of Change: An Exploration of Relationships Between International School Administrators’ Mindsets and Their Preferred Leadership Styles
<p>At the heart of educational leadership is the ability to manage change. Leaders who can successfully manage change invariably will be more effective. This is especially true in the often-transient world of international schools, where change happens frequently in response to evolving internal …
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Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, Autonomy Support, and Mindsets as Predictors of Self-Regulation in University Online Learners
… satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and mindsets predict self-regulation among university online learners in the United States. Based on the model fit and direct effect results of the first research hypothesis, the second research model was developed to examine the mediating effect of …
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