Professor Carol S. Dweck

Prize

Yidan Prize for Education Research

Year

2017

Initiative

Creating classrooms with culturally inclusive growth mindsets

Measuring the long-term effects of growth mindsets

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Professor Carol S. Dweck

Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Expertise

Learning mindsets; Inclusion and equity in education; Supportive classroom and school cultures

Changing our mindsets about learning

Professor Carol Dweck’s pioneering work in psychology gets to the heart of motivation and attitudes toward learning — showing us how we can create environments where each student can thrive. She’s spent much of her career challenging the longstanding idea that human potential is fixed. Her research finds that some people have a fixed mindset in which they indeed see their talents and abilities as unalterable. However, others hold more of a growth mindset in which they see talents and abilities as qualities that can be developed.

 

In the right environment, every student can build a growth mindset and develop their intellectual abilities. The key to a growth mindset isn’t telling students they can do anything if they try hard enough, but, through supportive teaching, helping them reframe their perspective on learning — so that they see challenges, effort, and setbacks, not as threats to their sense of ability, but as opportunities to learn and grow,

 

Carol’s research demonstrates that growth mindset helps students develop motivation to take on challenges, build resilience towards setbacks, and achieve better learning outcomes. Her work sees learning as a continual, iterative process, with plenty of room for trial and error. Recent findings from OECD have demonstrated that a growth mindset is related to achievement and wellbeing around the globe.

 

Among her accolades, Carol has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and has won more than a dozen lifetime achievement awards for her research. She also writes widely for educators and for the public, and her bestselling book Mindset has been translated into over 40 languages.

Professor Dweck has shown humanity our shared potential and a proven methodology for growing intellectually and adapting to a future that we have yet to envisage.

Professor Paul Chu Ching-wu

Former Panel Head, Judging Panel for Education Research, Yidan Prize

Featured initiatives

Supported by the Yidan Prize project funds
Creating classrooms with culturally inclusive growth mindsets

Transforming classroom experience for diverse students using teaching practices that foster culturally inclusive growth mindsets

Supported by the Yidan Prize project funds
Measuring the long-term effects of growth mindsets

Exploring the long-term impact of a one-time growth mindset intervention in 9th grade

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More about Professor Carol S. Dweck

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2017 Yidan Prize for Education Research Laureate

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Meet Professor Carol S. Dweck

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Acceptance Speech

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