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ERIC Number: EJ1302860
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
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Growth Mindset Predicts Achievement Only among Rich Students: Examining the Interplay between Mindset and Socioeconomic Status
King, Ronnel B.; Trinidad, Jose Eos
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v24 n3 p635-652 Jun 2021
There is a heated debate about the efficacy of growth mindsets in predicting achievement and other key learning-related outcomes with some studies supporting and others failing to find evidence of growth mindset's adaptive effects. Moreover, past studies on mindsets have mostly examined it as a psychological variable with little attention to how it interacts with socioeconomic status (SES). This study aims to examine (1) how growth mindsets are associated with key learning-related outcomes (i.e., motivation, engagement, and achievement) and (2) how growth mindsets interact with structural factors, specifically socioeconomic status at the individual and school level, in predicting key learning-related outcomes. The sample was drawn from the nationally representative Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) dataset which contained responses from 15,362 tenth-grade students in the United States. Data were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling to take into account the multi-level nature of the data. Though having a growth mindset was positively associated with better motivation and engagement for students across all socioeconomic strata, its effects on achievement were moderated by SES. A growth mindset positively predicted achievement only among students from more advantaged families but not among those from less advantaged families. This study highlights the importance of examining the interplay between mindsets and socioeconomic factors in understanding students' motivation, engagement, and achievement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (NCES)
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