Enhancing Undergraduate Student Success in STEM Fields through Growth-Mindset and Grit
Enhancing Undergraduate Student Success in STEM Fields through Growth-Mindset and Grit
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DOI：
10.3390/educsci10100279
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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3
通讯作者：
Edington, Maurice
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作者：
Hacisalihoglu, Gokhan;Stephens, Desmond;Edington, Maurice
出于对高等教育毕业率的担忧，大学开设了帮助学生培养成功技能的课程。科学家生活技能是佛罗里达农工大学为大一新生开设的一门新课程，重点是通过培养学生的成长心态、毅力和批判性思维来帮助他们进入专业。在这里，我们评估了这门课程的结果，并探索了培养生活技能和学生成功之间的联系。在课程前后使用了一系列的心态、毅力和批判性思维评估工具来收集数据。我们的结果表明，新课程达到了预期的目标，为STEM学生提供了一套工具，帮助他们无缝过渡到大学并成功地通过专业录取。具体地说，课程设计显著地推动了学生的成长思维，增加了他们的批判性思维，并提高了他们第二学期的平均绩点(GPA)。这种生活技能示范课程也可以在非STEM地区采用。
Concern about graduation rates in higher education has led universities to offer courses that help students develop success skills. Scientist Life Skills, a new course for freshman at Florida A&M University, focuses on helping students matriculate into majors via development of growth mindset, grit, and critical thinking. Here, we assessed the outcomes of this course and explored the associations between building life skills and student success. A series of mindset, grit, and critical-thinking assessment measures were used to collect data before and after the course. Our results showed that the new course achieved its intended goals of providing STEM students with a set of tools that help them seamlessly transition into the university and successfully matriculate through their majors. Specifically, the course design significantly moved students toward a growth-mindset, increased their critical thinking, and their second-semester grade point averages (GPAs). This model life skills course can be adopted in non-STEM areas as well.