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R. Lee Zasloff, PhD Adjunct Instructor, Psychology American River College Sacramento, CA http://www.wix.com/rlzasloff/animal-connections ________________________________ From: Jim Clark [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:50 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Carl Dweck's "Mindset" Hi Is Dwecks's work independent of the attribution theory work on Ability vs Effort attributions for performance by oneself or others (e.g., child)? It pops up in the cross-cultural literature with Americans emphasizing ability and Asians emphasizing effort. I'm not sure what is gained by restating effort as malleable rather than fixed view of intelligence. Performance is a function of multiple factors, one of which is aptitude and one of which is effort. Whether effort and practice modify aptitude would appear to be a separate question. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology U Winnipeg Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax ________________________________ From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [[email protected]] Sent: June-11-13 8:59 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Carl Dweck's "Mindset" My impression is that some labs have had a difficult time independently replicating Dweck's work. See: http://chronicle.com/article/Carol-Dwecks-Attitude/65405/ But I haven't tracked the state of the research in the last couple of years, so other TIPSters may wish to weigh in on this issue. ...Scott ________________________________ From: Claudia Stanny [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:37 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Carl Dweck's "Mindset" Dweck's research on mindset is solid, although the book Mindset is written for a general audience (highly readable prose and all the citations in footnotes buried in the back). I wrote a teaching tip based on Dweck's work (and the Mindset book) that summarized the work and suggests how it might apply to learning in higher education: http://uwf.edu/cutla/publications/TeachingTip5.pdf The core idea in Dweck's work is that success and expertise are based on hard work, deliberate practice, and excellent, timely feedback from a knowledgeable coach. Certainly not the "easy fix" preferred by most consumers of "pop science" who might mistake the title to imply that one simply needs to have positive thoughts to excel. :-) The problem we all face is the mass of students who bought into the "talent" myth: They believe if you don't have "talent," you should find something else to do when learning something begins to require serious effort. This myth gives short shrift to the importance of persistence and deliberate practice, which the research on expertise (e.g., Ericsson) indicates is critical for high levels of performance. Claudia _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF UWF Faculty ADVANCE Scholar School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355<tel:%28850%29%20857-6355> (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Mike Palij <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I've been receiving emails about educational webinars featuring Dweck and the ideas promoted in her book "Mindset: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Out Potential". I have a couple of questions: (1) Has anyone read it? The description on Amazon appears to indicate that it is a pop psych book for "success-oriented" people (perhaps like books on the effective habits of successful people) but how much is hype and how much is really research based? (2) Companies providing educational seminars seem to be promoting Dweck's book and work, it seems to me that it is oriented to the pre-college crowd, so, has anyone at the college level tried to implement Dweck's recommendations? What have been the results? Is there something here that all teachers should be aware of and use in their teaching? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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