Growth mindset and its predictive validit. Do migration background and academic validation matter?

Autor/inn/en	Corradi, David; Nicolai, Jonas; Levrau, Francois
Titel	Growth mindset and its predictive validit. Do migration background and academic validation matter?
Quelle	In: Higher education, 77 (2019) 3, S. 491-504Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	deutsch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560; 1573-174X
DOI	10.1007/s10734-018-0286-6
Schlagwörter	Lehre; Studium; Akademischer Austausch; Student; Ausland; Belgien
Abstract	A wide range of mindset interventions has been designed to tackle the educational gap and improve the academic achievements of underperforming students. These interventions often target small student samples in experimental or homogeneous educational settings. This paper will explicitly emphasize the role of context in the relationship between growth mindset and academic achievement in order to optimize the potential impact of mindset interventions. Based on the Self-System of Motivational Development, we offer a framework which allows for investigating the mediating function of growth mindset between the contextual factors of "minority background" and "academic validation," as well as students' levels of academic adjustment and academic outcome. Our data, drawn from survey research (N = 1549) in a Belgian university, indicate both an inverse, negative effect of mindset on academic outcomes-with little impact of context on mindset-as well as positive effects of academic validation on academic outcome among minority students. These results suggest that academic outcome depends on more than whether students are located on the positive or negative side of the mindset spectrum. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2019/3