Explain the differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset and the strategies parents and teachers might follow to develop a growth mindset. What impact would having a growth mindset have on school achievement?
What will be an ideal response?
Growth mindset: ability is something that can be increased with effort and practice.
Children tend to attribute their successes to ability and their failures to insufficient effort or an overly difficult task.
Fixed mindset: ability is something that is relatively fixed and unchangeable.
Children tend to attribute their successes to external factors such as luck, and their failures to a lack of ability.
Having a growth mindset, or undergoing an intervention that increases the tendency to adopt a growth mindset, has a positive relationship with later school achievement.
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