Tänker du att elever är A- eller C-elever? Tänker du att elever är A- eller C-elever? Tänker dina elever det? Kan det påverka deras kunskapsutveckling? Jorå. Carol Dweck har beforskat detta och pratar om två olika former av ”mind-sets” – att 1) antingen se att elever kan utvecklas och kommunicera detta (growth mind-set) eller att 2) man kan/kan inte (fixed mind-set). Även i Hatties ”Visible learning” kan vi se att INTE klassificera elever kan ha stor positiv påverkan på deras lärande (effektstorlek 0,61). ”Recent research has shown that students’ mind-sets have a direct influence on their grades and that teaching students to have a growth mind-set raises their grades and achievement test scores significantly.” Läs mer här (finns flera referenser i artikeln).
Carol Dweck: 'The whole idea of growth mindset is to say yes they can' Carol Dweck is education’s guru of the moment. The US academic’s “growth mindset” theory has taken schools on both sides of the Atlantic by storm. When TES met the Stanford University psychology professor at the Festival of Education at Wellington College last week, the mere mention of her name was sending teachers into shivers of excitement. But the woman herself is refreshingly modest about the success of her philosophy. “You never know how influential your idea is going to be,” she says, smiling. “It’s really gratifying that people have resonated to it.” Like all good ideas, Professor Dweck’s is essentially a simple one – it says that an individual’s learning is shaped by whether they believe their intelligence is fixed or can be changed (see panel, below right). And it seems to have flicked a switch in thousands of teachers’ heads. A means of marginalisation? Inevitably, the backlash has begun. She is visibly saddened to hear that her work has been interpreted in this way.