LMF101

Preliminary Results

Week 12

73% Brain Growth

20% Students Strategies

Baseline

End-of-term

Week 2

Week 12

Mindsets about Ability

Fixed mindset Growth mindset

Methodology

Learn

Yes

Work harder and smarter

Increase

Look smart

No

Give up

Decrease

Goals

Values effort, help & strategy?

Response to challenge

Changes in grades

Data Collection Timeline

Mixed Methods & Grounded Theory

Population

24 students

LMF 101

76% New to College

52% female

50% Dev. English

10% Engineering

52% Math & Science

38% Health Sciences

62% Dev. Math

57% Speak another language at home

Intelligence can be developed

Doing challenging work is the best way to make the brain stronger and smarter

The brain is malleable

Why

Sara Crosby

BC

Cathy Buryaski, UIPUI

C.C. community

is this research important to inverstigate?

College Transition Initiative

There is evidence of that from K-12 and 4-year settings not in Community College yet.

1/4 never back

cares?

Fresh from press

39% over 6 years

Dave Paunesku, Stanford U. & PERTS

Who

will this work benefit?

Miguel D. Powers

UCLA

Whom

Who

Lay theory interventions raised first-year full-time college enrollment raised disadvantaged students’ cumulative first-year grade point average (experiment 3).

is your audience?

Yeager, Walton, Bradyc, Akcinarb, Paunesku, Keanee, Kamentzf, Ritterg, Lee Duckworth, Ursteini, Gomez Markusb, Cohen, Dweck (2016)

PNAS

Student Success

Productive

Persistence

Other faculty teaching FYS

Curriculum Developers

Beliefs

+

=

Cognitive Ability +

What

Learning Strategies

+

Course Content

is my position in relation to the literature?

My study is a created to replicate some of the "classical" studies of mindset interventions for math learning and success to the community college setting.

Literature Review

To foster students’ good strategies, tenacity, and mindsets needed to be successful in college.

Silva & White (2013) Carnegie Foundation Report

Productive Persistence = Tenacity + Good Strategies

Value

Stereotype Threat

Anxiety

Belonging

Mindset

Goal

How could I

foster and support

student’s growth mindset

in a Liberal Arts

Math and Science

First Year Seminar class?

Muller & Dweck (1998)

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

6 studies where students where praised for ability or effort. Ability students show less enjoyment and performance.

Good, Aronson & Inzlicht (2003).

Applied Developmental Psychology.

Randomize experiment with 7th graders on mindset and standarized test performance, for growth mindset group, achievement gaps erased.

Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck (2007) Child Development

An eight-session workshop on how the brain grows with effort increased low-income middle school students’ math GPA months later.

MAT119

FYS

Spring 2013

Spring 2015

Third Wave

New To College Seminar

FOSTERING

SUCCESS

THROUGH

MINDSET INTERVENTIONS

IN THE FIRST YEAR SEMINAR

Milena Cuellar. June 20. 2016