Educator's Toolkit to promote a Healthy Child

    This is closely interrelated to motivation learning theory.

 

    Mindsets are a belief system that may change with environmental factors. Fixed mindset is the belief that the mind has a certain limit to brain function and cannot be added above that. Growth mindset is the belief that there is unlimited capacity of the brain, and many studies suggest that this mindset, whether from oneself or another person, may encourage a student to be academically successful.

 

     Mindsets can be changed by stereotypes in society. (Headden, McKay, 2015) For example, Conley Ganley of Florida State University found that girls on a mathematics test did not seem to be affected by the stereotype that girls do not perform as well in math. However, in a study by Steele, Aronson, of Stanford University, African-American students did poorly on problem-solving skills, one told it was an intelligence test. Similarly, a test on messages of Asian students typically doing well than white students found that the white students actually did not do well.