TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of the Use of Growth Mindset in the CS Classroom
AU - Kwak, Daehan
AU - Morreale, Patricia
AU - Hug, Sarah T.
AU - Kumar, Yulia
AU - Chu, Jean
AU - Huang, Ching Yu
AU - Li, J. Jenny
AU - Wang, Paoline
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/2/22
Y1 - 2022/2/22
N2 - Within computer science education, a growth mindset is encouraged. However, faculty development on the use of growth mindset in the classroom is rare and resources to support the use of a growth mindset are limited. A framework for a computer science growth mindset classroom, which includes faculty development, lesson plans, and vocabulary for use with students, has been developed. The objective is to determine if faculty development in growth mindset and active use of the growth mindset cues in the CS0 and CS1 classroom result in superior academic outcomes. Comparative study results are presented for two semesters of virtual classroom environments: one semester without Growth Mindset, and one semester with Growth Mindset. Female students demonstrated the most growth, as measured by academic grades, in CS0, and maintained that growth in CS1. Males demonstrated growth as well, with both males and females converging at the same high point of accomplishment at the end of CS1. Race and ethnicity gaps between students were reduced, improving academic equity.
AB - Within computer science education, a growth mindset is encouraged. However, faculty development on the use of growth mindset in the classroom is rare and resources to support the use of a growth mindset are limited. A framework for a computer science growth mindset classroom, which includes faculty development, lesson plans, and vocabulary for use with students, has been developed. The objective is to determine if faculty development in growth mindset and active use of the growth mindset cues in the CS0 and CS1 classroom result in superior academic outcomes. Comparative study results are presented for two semesters of virtual classroom environments: one semester without Growth Mindset, and one semester with Growth Mindset. Female students demonstrated the most growth, as measured by academic grades, in CS0, and maintained that growth in CS1. Males demonstrated growth as well, with both males and females converging at the same high point of accomplishment at the end of CS1. Race and ethnicity gaps between students were reduced, improving academic equity.
KW - broadening participation
KW - computer science education
KW - faculty development
KW - growth mindset
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126151882&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3478431.3499365
DO - 10.1145/3478431.3499365
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126151882
T3 - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 878
EP - 884
BT - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 53rd Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2022
Y2 - 3 March 2022 through 5 March 2022
ER -