Research on growth mindset took the education world by storm in the 2000’s, prompting excitement and criticism. We read a large scale expansion of the growth mindset research that addresses some of the most common criticisms of past work and provides actionable guidance for classroom teachers.
Later, we look at how different forms of feedback can affect students’ ability to solve math problems on subsequent tests. Timely formative feedback is essential for student growth.
Finally, our Peer Review features a debrief of an email conversation with author Maria Garcia Alvarez. She addresses some of our questions from episode 029, and we find common ground together.
- First Segment – 01:48 – National Growth Mindset Study
- Second Segment – 20:47 – Effective Feedback for Math Examples
- Third Segment – 34:09 – Peer Review: Author Response from 029 Meta-competencies
Cover Image by Ryan Forsythe
Yeager, D. S., Hanselman, P., Walton, G. M., Murray, J. S., Crosnoe, R., Muller, C., … & Paunesku, D. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature, 1-6.
- Investigating how errors should be flagged and worked examples structured when providing feedback to novice learners of mathematics
Manson, E., & Ayres, P. (2019). Investigating how errors should be flagged and worked examples structured when providing feedback to novice learners of mathematics. Educational Psychology, 1-19.
Alvarez, M. G. (2018). Can Character Solve Our Problems? Character Qualities and the Imagination Age. Creative Education, 9(02), 152.
- Best-evidence synthesis (Better Evaluation)
- Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions: the case of the growth mindset during the transition to high school (Yeager 2016)
- Podcast: A mindset for success, and mercury in fish (Nature, August 7th, 2019)
- Seven Keys to Effective Feedback (ASCD)
- Problems with Evidence-based Education: Side Effects in Education (Zhao Learning)
We drink Morning Island Blends, from Transport Brewery in Shawnee, KS.