5 minutes Learners complete the Growth and Fixed Mindset Inventory to capture current student levels of
understanding and depth of knowledge of key concepts.
At the beginning of this activity, please describe the inventory scoring process and discuss in general the outcomes.
Let them know there are no “right or wrong” answers, rather the scores serve as indicators of their current
inclination toward a growth or fixed mindset.
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Name Class Date
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Growth and Fixed Mindset Inventory | Symposium 2014 – The Makings of an Extraordinary Challenge
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Student
Instructions:
1)
Read each
prompt carefully to consider your overall personal beliefs, then rate each
response accordingly
2)
When
complete, add up subtotals in each column – then add up the final
score as the grand total
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People
learn new things all the time, but they really cannot change their basic,
general level of intelligence.
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Mostly false
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Not sure
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Mostly true
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7
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Work
is best when it:
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Makes me think hard
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Is easy to accomplish without much difficulty
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I
am comfortable with making many mistakes along the way to figuring things out.
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Most of the time
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Seldom
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If
work is very hard or it is difficult for me to understand:
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I take it on as a challenge
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I don’t want to continue
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When
others succeed while I make errors, it:
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Doesn’t bother me at all
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Bothers me a lot
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Subtotals:
Source: Dr. Robert K.
Greenleaf, Greenleaf Learning, 2014.
5 minutes Teams make sense of informative feedback and identify relevant findings.
At the beginning of Step 2, please assist the students as they process their inventory scores - as indicators of their
current inclination toward a growth or fixed mindset.
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Name Class Date
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Growth and Fixed
Mindset Inventory | Symposium 2014 – The Makings of an Extraordinary Challenge
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Making Sense of Your Scored Results
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The lower the total, the more inclined
you may be towards a growth mindset
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The higher the total, the more inclined
you maybe towards a fixed mindset
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5-10
High Growth
Mindset Orientation
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11-17
Moderate
Growth Mindset Orientation
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18-22
Mixed
Mindset Orientation
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23-29
Moderate
Fixed Mindset Orientation
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30-35
High Fixed
Mindset Orientation
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A
Growth Mindset Believes:
- To become
talented, we can develop the necessary skills and knowledge
- To become
more intelligent, we can do so by way of learning
- To figure
things out, sometimes it requires tenacity and persistence
- To make
some things work, it requires greater effort
- To succeed,
sometimes it is best to seek assistance
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A
Fixed Mindset Believes: - Either we are naturally born with talent or we are
not
- Either we are born intelligent or we are not
- Either we “get it” quickly or we don’t
- Either we pick things up quickly, or we are not
smart
- Either we avoid or
engage, it all depends on how hard something is
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Source: Dr. Robert K.
Greenleaf, Greenleaf Learning, 2014.
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