INTEGRATING GROWTH MINDSET INTERVENTIONS AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO ENHANCE PHYSICS LEARNING: A QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Abstract
Physics is often perceived as a difficult discipline, causing many students to doubt their ability and disengage from learning. Traditional graphic organizers such as Venn diagrams, cluster webs, KWL tables, and fishbone diagrams help students classify and compare information, but they do not explicitly address students’ beliefs about their abilities. Research on growth mindset—the belief that intelligence can be developed through effort—has shown that teacher training in this mindset improves student pass rates by 3.59 percentage points overall and by 6.31 points for low-socioeconomic students, that growth mindset beliefs correlate with self-regulated learning (r≈0.40), and that praise focused on effort enhances motivation and performance. However, few studies have integrated growth-mindset interventions with graphic organizers in physics instruction.
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