The Role Of Growth Mindset In Elementary School Children’s Performance

Objective. The aim of the paper was to study the relation between mindset and reading comprehension and arithmetic performance of 247 students aged 9 to 12 years from two schools in Argentina. Method. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire based on a Growth Mindset Scale, and standardiz...

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Autores: García Coni, Ana, Saldi, Lucía Belén, Villarramos, Clara, Andrés, María Laura, Canet Juric, Lorena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/45774
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/actualidades/article/view/45774
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Growth mindset
fixed mindset
school aged children
arithmetics
reading comprehension
Mentalidad de crecimiento
Mentalidad fija
niños escolares
aritmética
comprensión lectora
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Sumario:Objective. The aim of the paper was to study the relation between mindset and reading comprehension and arithmetic performance of 247 students aged 9 to 12 years from two schools in Argentina. Method. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire based on a Growth Mindset Scale, and standardized tests of reading comprehension and arithmetic calculation. In addition, school grades provided by teachers and social status data provided by parents/caregivers were used. The design was non-experimental and cross-sectional. Results. Hierarchical regression analyzes showed that the higher the growth mindset, the better the school performance, even when controlling for the effect of social status on these variables. The relation of performance with grades was stronger than with standardized tests.