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PERC Seminar: Students’ Growth Mindsets and Growth Goals in Mathematics

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12.00PM to 1.00 pm

Speaker(s): Keiko Bostwick (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Researchers have found that students’ academic growth constructs, including their growth mindset and various growth goals, tend to be positively associated with desirable academic outcomes and negatively associated with maladaptive academic behaviours. However, while researchers have conducted several examinations of individual growth constructs that have provided important information about their individual functionality, more research is needed to understand how these constructs may be interconnected and work together to promote students’ academic outcomes. In this presentation, Keiko Bostwick will present findings from her PhD research focused on an underlying growth orientation that underpins students’ growth mindset and growth goals. In addition, she will discuss its associations with students’ engagement and achievement in mathematics and the associations between teachers’ underlying growth orientation and their students’ mathematics outcomes.

Bio:

Keiko Bostwick is a PhD Candidate in Educational Psychology in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. Her research focuses on students’ and teachers’ academic growth constructs, including growth mindset and various types of growth goals, and how they may be associated with more positive academic outcomes for students. In addition to her PhD research, Keiko is also the co-chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group Roundtable, for early career researchers and research students at UNSW.

 

Location: D/L104, Education Senior Common Room