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Growth Mindset Messages from Instructors Improve Academic Performance Among First-Generation College Students. [PDF]

CBE Life Sci Educ
First-generation (FG) college students (i.e., those for whom neither parent/guardian obtained a bachelor’s degree) experience more barriers in college, compared with continuing-generation students.
Canning EA, White M, Davis WB.
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Student perceptions of alternative grading strategies in the biology classroom [PDF]

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
There is a need to provide more case studies of alternative grading strategies in the biology education literature and report on student perceptions of these strategies.
Jacob J. Adler, Lauren E. Stoczynski
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An undergraduate biology pedagogy course curriculum for instructional apprentices [PDF]

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Undergraduate instructional apprentices, which include undergraduate teaching assistants, learning assistants, or supplemental instruction tutors, must develop skills in facilitating student discussions while ideally gaining a deeper understanding of how
Clara L. Meaders, Erilynn T. Heinrichsen, Lisa McDonnell, Melinda T. Owens, Jim Cooke, Stanley M. Lo   +5 more
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Students Who Perceive Instructors to Have a Fixed Mindset Report a Greater Sense of Academic Misfit That Leads to Lower Chemistry Grades. [PDF]

J Chem Educ
Student mindset beliefs about the malleability of intelligence have been linked to student outcomes. However, recent meta-analyses showed mixed findings on how student mindset impacts their outcomes depending on the environment and context, such as the ...
Kattoum RN, Montenegro-Montenegro E, Baillie MT.   +2 more
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An exploratory study of the behaviors that communicate perceived instructor mindset beliefs in college STEM classrooms

Teaching and Teacher Education, 2022
College students’ perceptions of their instructors’ mindset beliefs predict their motivation, engagement, and performance in those instructors’ classes; however, little is known about how instructor behavior informs these perceptions. The purpose of the present paper is to illuminate behavioral themes that signal to undergraduate students their STEM ...
Kathryn M. Kroeper, Katherine Muenks, Elizabeth A. Canning, M. Murphy   +3 more
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Views of Struggling Students from Historically Excluded Groups on Academic Success and Instructor Support

Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2023
This qualitative case study explored the perceptions of struggling students who identified as first-generation, low-income, and/or Students of Color (i.e., Historically Excluded Groups), and their beliefs about success, struggle, and characteristics of ...
Amy Collins-Warfield, Jera Niewoehner-Green, Scott Scheer, Kristen Mills   +3 more
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Student Perceptions of Faculty Mindset

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This study investigates the influence of instructor mindset on student perceptions. Due to the need for increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) student retention and the issue of underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM ...
Christy Jarrard, Deborah Richardson, Robert Bledsoe   +2 more
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A Learning Strategy Intervention to Promote Self-Regulation, Growth Mindset, and Performance in Introductory Mathematics Courses [PDF]

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education
This study investigates the effectiveness of integrating explicit learning-strategy instruction into gatekeeper mathematics courses to foster a math growth mindset, self-regulated learning (SRL), and improved academic performance among underrepresented ...
Sayed A. Mostafa, Kalynda Smith, Katrina Nelson, Tamer Elbayoumi, Chinedu Nzekwe   +4 more
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M-LoCUS: A Scalable Intervention Enhances Growth Mindset and Internal Locus of Control in Undergraduate Students in STEM

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2020
Student self-beliefs regarding intelligence and ability have been shown to correspond to achievement and persistence in an academic domain. Specifically, previous research has suggested that a growth mindset—or the belief that intelligence is malleable ...
Dhiraj Nallapothula, Jennifer Berdan Lozano, Selina Han, Carlos Herrera, Hannah Whang Sayson, Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Maloy   +6 more
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Characterizing the Content and Mechanisms of Instructor Messages that Communicate Instructor Beliefs About Ability to Undergraduates. [PDF]

CBE Life Sci Educ
Instructors’ beliefs about their students’ abilities (called “lay theories”) and student perceptions of instructors’ beliefs impact students’ outcomes.
Chouvalova A, Billings I, Caraway AG, Hoggatt N, Kim GY, Mehta A, Vizcaino D, Limeri LB.   +7 more
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